Well so far it's kinda slow going even with the fast cure hardener temperatures are really slowing the cure time and I have no way to heat the area!
Well so far so good, I got the epoxy bed laid in between the keel and sump after I tightened the keels nuts to spec and pumped out all the water...
Thanks for all your help, I have plenty of woven cloth too so I will follow the steps you laid out and yea I am going for as neat as possible to...
Ok after west marine got done applying the "****" we are ready to start tomorrow I have plenty of glass mat a gallon of epoxy a slow set hardener...
I was only thinking of shipping in the delay it's already $25 a day at the yard so even with three day shipping for free it still cost him in wait...
By chance is west marine decent, I believe my dad has an account there and there would be no wait time for shipping. But if not I can contact the...
Thank you very much for your help I'm going to start exactly what you said tomorrow afternoon, are there any specific epoxys or resins I should be...
What would you suggest I use to fill this area back in? Would a good gun able two part epoxy over the old epoxy bed work, then fiberglass mat and...
So this area is not where the forward keel bolt is leaking from,could it be that they just need to be pulled cleaned under sealed and re torqued?...
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[IMG][IMG] Here's where we are, is this material acceptable to begin repair or is there something else I should do? Also to everyone...
Well these help a TON now I know what seems like an endless caulk joint is actually the bed of epoxy the keel was set in. And the area I'm looking...
I believe so.
So what would be the best thing to patch this with epoxy and glass fill or fiberglass resin with glass fill? I want to say only one can be used...
We've clean it down about 1/2 and removed all the cracked resin, it looks to be a poorly done repair but it could be factory I'm really not sure?
Here's a picture of the area in question. Once I figure out how to post a pic?
Hi everyone this is my first post as I have found myself helping my father with his 40' hunter sailboat. The issue I'm facing right now is the...