Man the glassing getting to me, I was told u can strip heaps of resin out when doing the lam coat,and fix it up later.(bollocks)
got air bubbles everwhere(mostly on the nose). it must be a fine line to get it right.
What should i look 4 when doing the lam coat.
Should it look wet???
or look like snake skin??
and is it best to ‘work’ the resin in or just do acouple of swipes and leave it??
Need help!!
you want the glass down against the board, the resin should be not shiny and not dry
a little bit of shiny can be ok till you get better at it
hey cheers kensurf, got a board lined up to glass in yhe next few day, so i'll c how it goes.
The cloth should be fully saturated and clear, but no “puddles.” You’ll start to hear a sort of zipper sound with the spreader or squeegee, and there will be little to no resin piling up at the edge as you pull.
Think of the fiberglass as a sponge. You over saturate the sponge, it drips out all over the place and makes a mess.....ie, puddling and pooling. If you over wring out the sponge it will pull in air when it reforms it's original shape...i.e, air bubbles in your lam.
So how do we tell you what it should look like? It should look perfect if you do it right. Who ever told you that you can pull tons of resin out of your lam coat? That would be a waste of material? Resin is just glue to hold the fiberglass to the surface of whatever you are glassing. Resin has hardly any structural value...it's just glue. Remember,...saturate the cloth, let it wet out, pull off any puddling, laminate it down. even squeegee pressure, don't over work it. Laminate it..walk away.
spackle it !!!
…no moe air bubbles !
lol.
herb