So many tangential ideas, irrelevant questions and wordy theories…. I guess I was hoping that someone who has had direct experience laying up...
Yesterday I laid up a test piece using the “thin layer of thickened epoxy to just fill in the tops of the kerfs” idea (as in the drawing I...
The size of the boat and such is not relevant to my question…..my question is simply the best, lightest way to securely bond glass to kerfed foam.
Thanks to those who have replied so far.. So I am understanding that the problem in NOT filling the kerfs is that all those areas are starting...
Thank you……but…. Some foams are, I believe, NOT kerfed, and boats built with that type of foam do NOT delaminate, correct?
Hello I am building a custom foam/epoxy catamaran. I have secured .75” foam with kerfs and will use it in a strip plank fashion to create the...
Thanks to those who helped…. To clarify: I would embed the cloth with gel, wait for cure, sand, and then still add several coats of more gel....
Hello Can one use polyester gel-cote to wet out/laminate with 6 ounce cloth? I ask as I am repairing a very very small area (very tip end of...
I have plenty of photos, but I am simply asking a general question about tension strength on a cut panel….please read the question carefully and...
Let me ask in another way…. Imagine you lay up a flat panel. 4’ by 4’ by .75” foam with 36 ounces of BIAX and epoxy on both sides. You then...
Configuration and pics not relevant to my question. Again. Is there any way to understand how wide of a “patch strip” is needed to get the panel...
I am in the position of having to join together a bulkhead that had to be cut. 30’ custom power catamaran. The original composition of the...
