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OK, made my first attempt at epoxy work ever, and now I need help.


pwillems

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Hi all,

 

Started yesterday on my Spindrift 11N. The first step involved some butt joins. All went well for one of the sheets, but it appears I failed to correctly wet out a section of the glass on one side of the other sheet. This was the first piece I laid down and the process required me to wet out the glass and lay it down before laying the ply on top of it... I can see now that I should have wet the glass out more thoroughly and also put some goop on the ply as well. The good news is that the 3 other joins look great.

 

So, what is to process to fix this? Do I need to sand back the whole thing removing all the glass and start over?

Thanks.

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On raw wood, you need to wetout the surface first, to prevent glue starvation. On previously epoxied wood, you just need to scuff the surface for good adhesion, unless employing another coating or lamination on "green" epoxy. It's hard to tell from your photo, but it looks like much of the joint has good wetout. Grind away the areas where it's milky, as these are the places it's not well bonded. Apply more fabric and goo to the areas you grind away.

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