i am not going into a bizare yes you can no you cant train wreck?
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just going to post up what i have had experience with.
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firstly i have only used kinetics epoxy for surfboards over the last 6ish yrs
and greg will tell me i cant. but naturaly i understand his position but i have hot coated a few epoxies with poly cat
and in recent times u v poly
in that time i havent seen any major defects but hey mybe i dont produce enough vol to have a clue
but i do know a cple of the little mongs that test and play with my short boards that are all built ultra light
for them to have a board for a yr and still surf it is a feat in itself have they snapped them YES
do they get footwells YES
plus your general ware and tear. but in none of those areas do i see the poly peeling off in sheets like some claim??
as a mater of fact the only times i have seen it chip away is on the tail were it has been droped and was easly repaired
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but dead
i threw a few boards in the skipp bin till i learnt exactly what was happening
the first thing and bear in mind i dont like laminating in cold weather not even whith artificaly heated areas.
just yesterday i had the best epoxy glassing day for a long time 29 deg c the whole room just felt so right the resin whithout aditives
was flowing just so smothly thats the first big step for mine.
even though the boards were what felt like cured at the end of the day i put them in a rack for two more days
its well to note that i do cut laps trimed horizontly with sharp scalpel leaves a very thin cut line
keep everything nice an clean.
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when iget the board to hot coat it i run the cut line down with a surform blade and scuff the whole board (for mechanical bond)
then uv it i think i posted the how to elsewhere the main thing i found that if you do sand back to glass anywhere it will need an epoxy repair.
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the thing i learnt is if the epoxy is not fully cured the poly wont go near it it is a f###k up
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an example a board i got back to repair 2yr old it was glassed 1 layer of 4 oz on deck with a poly resin special effect
then glassed top and bottom 1 layer 4 oz in epoxy . then h coat poly finished poly
the rail had a heavy ding an delam but here is the joke
**the first epoxy lap was in good nick the second lap on to the epoxy one had delamed haaa’’
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the epoxy sticks lik e sh ###t to a blanket
so now after all this epoxy talk i am itchy with red lumps everywhere haa’’
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ps now that i can get gregs resin just down the way i will definatly test it with poly u v
i i bet i dont have a prblm
hope i have been of some help if not oh well
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