Glass Job.

General Discussion
1

Hey,

I need some input/advice. I sent out 3 boards for glassing. Two of them I can easily push in dings with my fingers on the bottom with very lil pressure, among other problems. Should I ask for a refund of some sort?

Thanks

r

2

Wasn’t poly by any chance was it? Otherwise what were the blanks like? If it is epoxy, well it sounds like it hasn’t cured properly and then definitely, yeah, I would ask for a refund.

3

Marko and RR Epoxy with 6oz.

They have been sitting around at the shop for a couple weeks until I could get them today. So they are def cured.

I’m reglassing the bottoms right now. So I can give to the owners and be abe to sleep at night.

R

4

Are they just glassed, or are they sanded as well as my only other guesses would be oversanded or someone used 2oz cloth.

5

Yeah over sanded. Really sucks.

6

  1. May not be fully cured if it was kept in a shop that gets cold at night.

  2. If it’s oversanded, you’ll see the weave in the sunlight.

  3. Maybe the guy didn’t understand how to use the product, and added too much hardener trying to speed things up.

I’d call the guy and tell him the problem… put the ball in his court. Ask him why one board is OK and the other two are like loaves of bread.

7

Well, what’s done is done. Guess I’m back to glassing my boards.

I re-glassed the bottom of one.

I tried RR accelerator on it. It seemed to speed up the gelling time but cure time didn’t seem much different.

R

8

My experience is that the accelerator shortens the flip time (stilly tacky, but you can handle it without pulling up the glass), but the curing schedule doesn’t really change.

The batch of boards we’re glassing now is polyurethane resin… going for the old school gloss and polish. Epoxy is so much safer. Just keep clean and you’ll be fine.

9

Yeah got tacky quicker. I read somewhere that said 1 hr to go straight to sanding at air temp 75 degrees F and after heating up the resin.

I didn’t heat and it was a best 60 degrees out.

Thanks NJ…

10

Hi ya, NJ surfer,

is that hte Resin X stuff, or not?

cheers

11

no…Resin Research Epoxy…

Haven’t given the Resin X a go, yet.