What type of resin??? is med to dark grey?

Discussion in 'Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building' started by mtnrat, Oct 17, 2006.

  1. mtnrat
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    My has been redone before and a type of resin that dries med to dark grey was used. Any guesses as to what it is?
     
  2. fiberglass jack
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    how much change do i have in my pocket?, just joking , hard to say by looking, if you can get a piece and burn it with a lighter if it smells sweet its polyester more than likly its poly , what year is the boat? it could be skined with vinyalester and the rest with poly,
     
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    It is a 1981. Yep smells sweet when burned.
     
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    99% chance its poly where in canada r u
     
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    The boat was made in kelowna. I am in Fernie B.C.
     
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    Should I grind out all the poly that was used during the last repair,(using the word repair very loosely), and get back to the original material?
     
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    yep get rid of that crap dont be shy with the grinder
     
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    Thats what I figured and was hoping. The ahem "repair" people used gobs of it. There is even a chunk the size of a baseball just stuck to the hull between stringers.
     

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    thats the repair guys test_ tickle sculpture:p
     
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