Benny,
Just trying to convert your measures to metric, are they fluid oz? or weight?
Is it the same for doing under balsa in a vacuum or do you use a 1:1 weight ratio then?
Do you a roller to lam as well?
also do you have similar measures for the hotcoat?
Thanks,
Scot
All fluid oz. I don’t see any reason to measure epoxy by weight - its all labeled by volume, so why second guess it?
I also make it easy on myself & use (with epoxy) all 4 oz e cloth. I bought a roll. Halfway through 300 yards and I don’t see any reason to backtrack - its working great and I know how to deal with everything. No waste - that’s important, and also great durablility. If I want to save a few ounces on a finished board, its easier (and just as unlikely) for me to give up beer for a week. 
Outer lam with a squeegee. Old school. Again, if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it…but if it is broken, hit it with a hammer until it submits 
Good luck
Thanks Benny,
I looked back thru some of your first threads and you have come a long way since the $143 board.
youve become a bit of a guru now, especially with the compsands,
nice work
youve become a bit of a guru now…
Ben is a direct descendent of Albert Einstein… that’s Grandpa in his avatar… as you can clearly see, he also inherited Mr.Einstein’s keen sense of humor. 
Was your cloth clean? The slightest amount of grime can scare epoxy off and leave a “dry” spot. I would suggest using a roller, as the coat gells, you can simply mix up a new small batch and roll it into areas where it is needed. The roller allows you to work it out real even and you wont get pools or dips in the resin. You can keep building up the cheater/hot coat in this manner every few hours until you are satisfied with the coverage. Sorta like, lam in the morning, roller some extra at lunch and again after work and once more before beddie bye time. Rarely will you need a breakfast run the next day… Unless you want an incredibly thick coat, in which case you can keep this act up till you got 3 inches of gelled epoxy on your board 
I find low viscosity good when laminating but inconsequential for cheater/hotcoating as the roller can really spread the resin out well. Be carefull with squegees, you can get foamy bubbles…
Ben is a direct descendent of Albert Einstein… that’s Grandpa in his avatar… as you can clearly see, he also inherited Mr.Einstein’s keen sense of humor.
But his writing is very hard to read. We’ve never been altogether sure if he was telling grandma my dad was illiterate or illegitimate.
Scot, I’m no guru, just a conduit. People give me good advice, I pass it forward, usually after testing it on my own and maybe improving it a little if I can. Don’t read those old threads too closely, much has already changed since then. Not just for me, but everyone’s rethinking foam and resin now. The collective knowledge & collaborative R&D on Swaylocks is both innocently unique and staggeringly comprehensive.
Now im not exactly sure which method i should use. i think the main problem was that i let the epoxy gel in too cold of a room. i hot coated down in my garage where it was just barely 60 degrees. and then when it gelled i pulled the tape and i put it in a room that was probably around 65+ degrees. today im going to try again, but i’ll do the whole thing in the room where it is warmest. should i still try to thin out the epoxy before i attempt? or should i go by the method stated below and just keep adding epoxy to the dry spots if there are any that time?
thanks
Was your cloth clean? The slightest amount of grime can scare epoxy off and leave a “dry” spot. I would suggest using a roller, as the coat gells, you can simply mix up a new small batch and roll it into areas where it is needed. The roller allows you to work it out real even and you wont get pools or dips in the resin. You can keep building up the cheater/hot coat in this manner every few hours until you are satisfied with the coverage. Sorta like, lam in the morning, roller some extra at lunch and again after work and once more before beddie bye time. Rarely will you need a breakfast run the next day… Unless you want an incredibly thick coat, in which case you can keep this act up till you got 3 inches of gelled epoxy on your board
I find low viscosity good when laminating but inconsequential for cheater/hotcoating as the roller can really spread the resin out well. Be carefull with squegees, you can get foamy bubbles…
ok well i just went ahead and fixed my hot coat with my brother’s help, because i did not want to be near these chemicals and fiberglass dust while i still have this rash that’s now finally healing. i ended up heating up the epoxy in a hot bath of water and i hot coated in a room that had a much higher temperature than the one i originally started in. the resin went on beautifully and the added heat let everything go on smooth and without any drips. my leftover resin in my mixing cup started to cure so much faster, so im thinking this hot coat will work out well.
thanks for the tips guys, i’ll post results in a few hours once things gel and cure.
some pics of the over all process:
im very happy with the way my fins have come out too (first time doing this…)
i think this time came out way better than my first attempt. thanks for the help again guys
