Damp Fiberglass Cloth

I have had a couple small rolls of cloth stored in the cellar for the past year or so.  New England has really rainy and humid and everything in my old fieldstone basement is downright soggy.  I am worried i might have potential issues glassing this weekend, cosmetic or structural.  If I put the cloth in a dry box with some dessicant will all be good? If I plan to pigment my lam, will this hide any potential visable weave?

Here’s a few issues that I can see you running into;

-the cloth might be dirty

-when the cloth dries it probably won’t lay as flat

-depending on how much cloth is on the roll you might want to unroll if so it will dry faster

-any mold issues with the moisture?

Using  a pigment will help but you can still see the weave if you’re looking at it up close. If anything, dry the cloth and then lay up a sample piece and see how that goes. Could be no big deal.

de humidifier comes to mind…

you can see a measurable amount of water collected…

where the glass has soaked up water the resin will saturation % comes in question.

unrolled in the bright sun out flat on a hot dry fine swept driveway on clean craft paper

at lengths of board to be glassed sounds good; without access to the de-humidifier.

wet also has a cool feel to the touch sometimes the back of your hand

or your inner forearm is more temp. sensitive…

there are moisture meters for lumber

would they work?

Using old stored materials

are fulfilling to the scrounge/salvage ethic

but a great project result is influenced

by the selection of the  best quality

of availiable materials. use the storage

but make a parallel project

of great materials to be quite proud of.

…ambrose…