FUNNY, it's almost as though building a boat and gelcoating and painting it is a complex process that requires a great deal of skill and...
This boat is a beater, so a great boat to experiment on with glass and painting... Follow up question: can you do a two-part poly paint over a...
Touche' :) Foam brush or bristle? Tried with nice angled bristle brush first, but that seemed to leave a lot of grain... haven't tried sponge...
What's the best technique you guys have found for getting 1-part poly smoothly painted into tight spaces, like foot wells in a surf ski or around...
Thanks for the info; it's a lot to process, but I'm learning, slowly! Do you get bitten by the "fiberglass bug"? I was dreading working with this...
***Solved: turns out crappy Bondo fiberglass resin was the issue the whole time. No ingredients on the can, no specification of what type it was,...
Very good to know. Is working in small sections with small patches the way most novices develop their skill? I tried larger pieces of CSM and it...
Thanks for the knowledge, and sorry to sound ignorant, but what is CSM? What kind of resin should I use with cloth?
What you're saying makes sense and coincides with what I"m seeing. The thinner areas are slower, thicker is faster curing. I learned a lot by...
Gotcha. I'll see how this thing pans out. Bondo is not listing any ingredients on the can, so apparently it's proprietary. Next time I use a...
I will check it out. Bondo is the thing rednecks (like myself) historically use for one-step repairs, so I HOPE it has a wax... that said, now...
I will definitely do those things next time, except won't it start to gel/catalyze if I wait 10 minutes? The resin started to gel within about 10...
Do you think the tacky stuff is unhardened resin, or could be it be some residue of something else that won't go away soon? If there are still...
This... this is the part where I put my palm on my face, because this is going to sound stupid. I just grabbed Bondo fiberglass resin. Figured it...
That IS interesting. My brain is trying to use glue or paint logic with this, so I'm imagining thinner layup dries faster, but is there some kind...
Far as I know. Just the cheap, generic glass resin you pick up at any hardware store, with the MEKP hardener tube in the lid. Maybe I'll set...
This is glass I put on today, but the cure time is supposed to be a few hours, and it's out to about 8 now. It's cured somewhat, just tacky in...
Have some fiberglass repairs that aren't curing well (living in 90%+ humidity everyday probably doesn't help) Was reading somewhere about...
I'm happy with the results, thanks to good advice here. It's not as good as it could be, but a learning experience. Due to humidity and being...
