my first epoxy glass job went very well (thanks, greg)…but i hotcoated with a 4" chip brush and i got a lot of loose hairs in the hotcoat. i pulled the brush as clean as i could before hotcoating, but the brush still shed quite a bit. any ideas??
Hi Brandon.Throw away brushes shed like crazy.Use a better brush like a
Corona Shipmate.Still cheap enough to toss after a hotcoat with way less
shedding.
Yeah, Jeff’s got it.
Cheap brushes, or ones that shed, should be saved for painting the living room.
Use quality new on your surfboards.
To stop it a little bit more I have taped around the top and it held alot of the bristles and kept them from falling out.
Austin S.
Hey Brandon,
That shedding is real annoying and I also received some good advice in the following thread on brushes.
Best,
Herb
I was tought to wrap a couple of layers of masking tape round the base of the brush, just covering about an inch of bristle. If you can get hold something equivelant to a Harris man-made bristle try them, they never shed. I haven’t taked one apart yet (they seem to go on for ever) but I suspect the man-made bristles are melted together inside the head.
I use the cheapest of the cheap brushes with no problem…I pull the bristles as Soul did …but I run a hair brush through the brush a couple dozen times and it seems to clean out all the loose ends…anyway I have no problems using cheapies as long as I brush’em…have fun…
With the cheap chip brushes you can eliminate shedding by taking some epoxy thinned with just a little bit of denatured alcohol (<10% by volume) and drip or lightly brush it at the tops of the bristles right around the ferrule (the metal part) then let it cure before you use the brush.
With top quality paint brushes it is pretty common to have the bristles epoxied in place during manufacture.