I glassed the bottom of my first and developed too many air bubbles. I ordered slow RR but Fiberglass Supply sent me fast and did not want to wait another week to return. I ran out of time working the bubbles out. I’m starting to get paranoid about all the things that can go wrong when I do the deck. I was thinking about mixing up two separate batches of fast RR when do the deck to buy me some more time. Should I be concern that half my deck will be starting to set up when I start the other half?
Mixing up a batch and doing from stringer to rail on one side and then another batch on the other side works great and IMO is better than using slow.
Be sure you sand the bubbles on your rails as best as possible and they’ll fill on side two.
Greg - Thanks for the help - and soon enough that I can glass the deck tonight.
mjl
hey Mick, welcome to Sways...
what caused the bubbles? where you working the resin too much (like you would with Polester resin), did you pull too much resin out of the lam, or ???
No. Your second batch will be a few minutes behind in curing time is all.
As far as I can determine, my inexperience cased the bubbles…spent too much time on the rails and by the time I came back to push the deck resin it was setting up. I was monitoring my timer but I could not get all away around my 10” board. I glassed the bottom with double 4 and did the deck last night with double 6. I split the deck as Greg suggested and it turned out really good. The 6 oz material clears bubbles better than 4 too.