Burnsy
03-10-2008, 04:03 PM
I'm repairing some areas of deck on a 33' race-oriented sailboat from above. 3/8" Balsa core. I've ground out the bevel in delam areas and replaced bad core, now I'm about to lay some 10 ounce cloth with West System epoxy. My understanding is cloth can be used exclusively when using epoxy. Planning on a hand lay with or w/o release fabric.
Boat is originally made of e-glass & kevlar w/ epoxy. Original deck skin appears to vary from fairly thin (appears to be 1 layer of mat?) to at least a few layers thick in some areas.
Any rough rules of thumb on how many layers of 10 oz should do the trick? Keep adding until the repair is up about level with old deck? Or one, two, or a few is typically plenty then fair over with low density?
Deck will be finished with paint and new nonskid.
Thanks, I see variations of this question have been posted ad nauseum. I've got the Don Casey book, but of course can't find it when I need it.
Boat is originally made of e-glass & kevlar w/ epoxy. Original deck skin appears to vary from fairly thin (appears to be 1 layer of mat?) to at least a few layers thick in some areas.
Any rough rules of thumb on how many layers of 10 oz should do the trick? Keep adding until the repair is up about level with old deck? Or one, two, or a few is typically plenty then fair over with low density?
Deck will be finished with paint and new nonskid.
Thanks, I see variations of this question have been posted ad nauseum. I've got the Don Casey book, but of course can't find it when I need it.