Recent content by dirtydiego41

Thanks for the input. I fooled around with the 3m gun and figured out the exact match. Just about the easiest, most effective, and all around user friendly coating one could have. 2-3 coats thinned, then turn the fluid and pressure way down until you get the right size flecks of un-thinned for...

Sweet hijack BTW.

China is far beyond entering the world as a real player, they are the league officials. I could never understand what my dad was talking about when he said this country was going to ****...Now I know. We live in a disposable world, and China supplies the finest disposable products available...

Cut through the skin at the low point, hope it drains out?? If water is traveling through the cells, Either the skin has separated the poly from the honeycomb core, or the poly was not wetted out enough to provide a waterproof layer. Your best chance is that runs true for the whole lamination...

That' what I'm talking about, thanks.

Calm down fellas, just a joke. I'm quite familiar with the conversion, but equally irritated, just as much so when dealing with fathoms and feet. When you build things by the inch for 25 years the eye is trained to see 1/8" or .125 not .3175, just sayin. potato, potato.

Just FYI, nothing to do with your switch, when your pump quits replace it with a USA made johnson pump. Rule pumps are ***** since they moved production to mex.

WTF is a mm? Inches folks this is the US.

Just curious, why 1708 over roving?

In a perfect world, yes there are no bubbles. I'm talking micro bubbles 1/16-1/32" here and there, hand laid glass rolled and the whole bit, not vacuum bagged, it happens. How do I know this, because I uncover it daily, on boats that have been alive for over 20 years without falling apart. I...

Does anyone have a quick trick for filling air bubbles uncovered when sanding mat? Usually I do my layup and follow with mixed filler so there's nothing left to do but sand smooth, everything is monolithic. On the edges of a patch where you have to sand through most of the mat there are...

If you weld on a riveted alum boat the rivets on both sides of the weld will start leaking. Splash zone is our best bet, and only a bandaid at that.

That is more like a 30 grit sanded surface. I don't think what I'm talking about it is a molded surface. Usually you can find duplications of one feature in those random patterns that aren't that far apart. I checked out flexmold before posting on here, $53/sqft seems a little rapey. If I wanted...

50 gal drum for blocking? what country is this in?