I lam epoxy on EPS, so there are always several layers of glass on the lap. Under the rail, wetting out works against gravity. It’s like nailing jelly to a tree. Using a large spatula and a squeegee, instead of the inverted rail and a squeegee works okay, but leaves lots of drip. The solution? I wonder how a PVC dust pan would work under the rail glass. It would catch the drip, and provide a flat reservoir for wetting lap glass. It might even work fast enough to finish laminating before the resin kicks. Do pros use anything like this? -Noodle
I lam epoxy on EPS, so there are always several layers of glass on the > lap. Under the rail, wetting out works against gravity. It’s like nailing > jelly to a tree. Using a large spatula and a squeegee, instead of the > inverted rail and a squeegee works okay, but leaves lots of drip.>>> The solution? I wonder how a PVC dust pan would work under the rail glass. > It would catch the drip, and provide a flat reservoir for wetting lap > glass. It might even work fast enough to finish laminating before the > resin kicks.>>> Do pros use anything like this?>>> -Noodle I build a lot off epoxy boards over the years and the best thing is to vacuum bag it. Just tape the rails, glas it, place the bag and suck the air out. Before that I just used plastic wich you could see thru (not to thin). Now put this over the just glassed board, first nose and tail only pull lenghtwise, tape this so there is a lot off tension. Then start out in the middle using tape again, tape and pull the plasic under the board to the other side and tape it again, again with a lot off tension, work from the middle to the nose and tail now. So by now the board is completely wrapped in plasic, now it’s time to use your squeegee or even a windscreenwiper and squeez al the air and resin out. Remove the plastic when te resin is hard, if you do this properly you don’t even have to sand it. Do the same thing on the other side and you have a very strong good looking product. It looks more difficult here, than it is, good luck. Peter Rijk
Thanks for the tips. I’ve heard that bagging is difficult to manage. Even squeegeeing over plastic… I like the idea of having the glass where I can get my fingers on it to fix problems during setup. Bagging is scarry to me. Maybe that’s because I can’t afford to throw away many mistakes.>>> I build a lot off epoxy boards over the years and the best thing is to > vacuum bag it. Just tape the rails, glas it, place the bag and suck the > air out.>>> Before that I just used plastic wich you could see thru (not to thin). Now > put this over the just glassed board, first nose and tail only pull > lenghtwise, tape this so there is a lot off tension. Then start out in the > middle using tape again, tape and pull the plasic under the board to the > other side and tape it again, again with a lot off tension, work from the > middle to the nose and tail now. So by now the board is completely wrapped > in plasic, now it’s time to use your squeegee or even a windscreenwiper > and squeez al the air and resin out. Remove the plastic when te resin is > hard, if you do this properly you don’t even have to sand it. Do the same > thing on the other side and you have a very strong good looking product. > It looks more difficult here, than it is, good luck.>>> Peter Rijk
Thanks for the tips.>>> I’ve heard that bagging is difficult to manage. Even squeegeeing over > plastic… I like the idea of having the glass where I can get my fingers > on it to fix problems during setup.>>> Bagging is scarry to me. Maybe that’s because I can’t afford to throw away > many mistakes. Hello again, No it’s not that difficult, get yourself some foam, a piece of styrofoam used on roofconstructions from buildings is cheap and makes perfect practise material Even a piece of wood wil do, form it like a mini surfboard if you want. Practise the way I discribed whitout the bag, you wil see it’s very simple. Using a squeegee on plastic works fine to and another good thing with the plastic is that this way you protect yourself for the fumes comming from the resin. I tryed to make a drawing how I build the frame where I glas them on, gonna place this now. The green thing is the board with the layers of glas, the light bleu stuff is the plastic, the gray stripes the tape. Hope it helps, good luck. Peter Rijk