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Re: Strip: Et's skeg - detailed write up with pics
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 11/15/2011, 2:53 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Et's skeg - detailed write up with pics (Etienne Muller)

: I use west 403 microfibres for glueing items like the skeg box
: together or to the hull or the hull to the sheer planks. It is
: strong but heavy, as it absorbs resin. It also slumps.

: I use west 406 B colloidal silica for fillets. It is White and if
: it is visible I add wood dust from my sander baggie Ito colour.

: The colloidal silica is very light and doesn't absorb much resin.
: It doesn't slump. Not knowing anything much about it, when asked
: how much I wanted I said about a kilogram should do. It arrived
: in a four gallon bucket and will last me the rest of my life.
: Order by volume not weight.

: Large fillets will heat up and can cause structural damage in tight
: spaces through expansion.

: The microfibres and silica can be combined to make a non slumping
: glue at the cost of strength depending on the ratios.

: Et

Hi Et,

LOL on the colloidal silica order, I do understand, I once ordered a 25 lb. bag (HUGE bag).

Bill H.

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Strip: Et's skeg - detailed write up with pics
Etienne Muller -- 11/13/2011, 1:51 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/13/2011, 1:54 pm
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Kirk Fredericks -- 11/13/2011, 2:42 pm
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Ian Cummins -- 11/13/2011, 9:55 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/14/2011, 5:37 am
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Ian Cummins -- 11/14/2011, 10:55 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/14/2011, 12:49 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/15/2011, 2:55 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/15/2011, 2:53 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 11/13/2011, 5:20 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/14/2011, 6:08 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/14/2011, 6:12 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 11/15/2011, 5:15 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/16/2011, 5:37 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/16/2011, 5:38 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 12/14/2011, 6:37 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/15/2011, 8:54 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 12/16/2011, 9:26 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/13/2011, 10:06 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/14/2011, 12:47 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/14/2011, 9:16 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 11/14/2011, 12:36 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/16/2011, 12:09 pm
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StephenHJ -- 11/16/2011, 1:29 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/20/2011, 4:27 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/20/2011, 4:28 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/20/2011, 4:30 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/20/2011, 4:31 pm
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dave g -- 11/21/2011, 10:23 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/22/2011, 5:15 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/21/2011, 1:32 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 11/21/2011, 8:30 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/21/2011, 1:01 pm
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 1/13/2012, 10:14 am
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Etienne Muller -- 1/13/2012, 12:14 pm