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Re: Heat & Humidity
By:CHad
Date: 7/6/1998, 2:39 pm
In Response To: Heat & Humidity (Jim Ward)

Jim,

I just glued and FG my S&G hull in my basement. It was very humid and 70-85 degrees in my basement. I did not have any problems. The humidity may have swelled the wood but I did not notice anything. Humidity does not effect the epoxy at all, but temperature does. When it was warm I could do two coats of epoxy a day because it cured so fast.

One word of warning:when you first coat the wood with epoxy do it when the temp is dropping instead of climbing. This will prevent out gassing.(See below link.)

Messages In This Thread

Heat & Humidity
Jim Ward -- 7/6/1998, 1:00 pm
Re: Heat & Humidity
NPenney -- 7/7/1998, 2:31 pm
Aye, yer lucky to have a garage
Wynne -- 7/6/1998, 8:14 pm
Re: Aye, yer lucky to have a garage
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 12:30 am
Re: Heat & Humidity
Paul Jacobson -- 7/6/1998, 6:27 pm
Re: Heat & Humidity
CHad -- 7/6/1998, 2:39 pm
Re: Heat & Humidity
Rob Cochrane -- 7/6/1998, 4:48 pm