Hope you have not glued those boxes in yet because 3 of 4 are backwards, the grub screws should be facing the stringer. Also from the photos it looks like you are setting the fins boxes using the center markup line on the Fusion jig, instead of the right/left side fin guidelines. Or perhaps not using the jig and aligning them thru the center of the tab slots.
Bud, they aren’t glued in yet. I just put them in to make sure it was the right depth. I properly used the jig but made an adjustment to the back two fins (moved farther in) after already marking the original measurements. Thank you both for the help though I might have forgotton about the fin boxes and put them in wrong!
Today I smelt a chemical in my garage so went to check on my resins. Everything seemed fine except for my additive f that is in a glass container with a plastic cap. It was tipped over on it’s side and I’m not too sure what happened to it from there. It leaked out a little bit, had a little waxy paste around the cap, and sediments floating around inside. My main concern is if I can still use this additive f or if it’s contaminated. Could I possibly try straining it with a paint filter? I know additive f is cheap but the closest supply shop is pretty far from me right now.
is the additive styrene and wax that you mix with the resin to make filler coats,if so stand the bottle in hot water obviously with the level below the top,the bits should dissapear when it warms up as it could be the wax held in suspension.
bjornagain, I let it sit in warm water for a little bit and it looks normal again! Thanks for the advice. I just got done setting my leash plug and doing a little foam stain. I kinda goofed up while making the leash plug hole (see pictures).
Well the hoatcot went really well except a bubble formed underneath the front logo. I’m not sure what happened there but I proceeded to sand the board. First time using my milwaukee sander and boy is that thing powerful! I didn’t know what I was doing exactly so I had a time using the tool correctly and ended up just hand sanding half of the board because I could see shinies and didn’t dare to tought the rails with this thing. I had one major burn through (hit the foam) while taking down the fin box and another burn through at the front deck logo which was bubbled up. To fix the logo bubble/burn through I have cut out the entire logo and replaced it with a new slightly smaller one. I just got done filling it in with epoxy resin with one layer of 4oz cloth over the logo but inside the hole. Once that hardens I will put another 4 oz layer and resin over the entire hole and will sand that flush after it hardens. Hopefully I can recover from this setback. I am bummed because it looked so good after the hotcoat and now I feel like I have destroyed the board haha. Sanding takes a lot more skill than I thought. Btw I think my sanding schedule for a sanded finish was wrong to begin with. I started with 60 grit on medium pad to take down the fin boxes/ leash plug/ and rough up the entire board (all of my sand throughs were with this grit) after that I switched to 120grit on a soft pad and that worked great. I stopped after th 120grit though because I knew I was going to have to do another hotcoat. If I didn’t stop my schedule would’ve been 60,120,150,220,320. After reading a pretty good thread on here I feel like it should’ve been 120,150,220,320 for a sanded finish.
BTW this resin is wayyyyyyy easier to sand than the polyester resin I used before. I honestly think I could sand the entire board by hand if I had to with RR.
