when you glass a board, do you use three diffrent types of resin? Is there a diffrent lamanating resin, an sanding coat resin, and a gloss resin? or do you just use the same stuff for all three pourposes? I had just been using the same stuff for all three… is this right?
Basic resin, lam
Add wax for hot/sandcoat, so wax rises, get hard enough to sand
Add styrene to thin out the lam, waxed resin, so the resin runs out totally smooth for gloss.
Two different types of resins. Laminating and Gloss resin. Sanding resin is laminating resin with 5% surfacing agent added. I am suprised you havent run into any trouble using the same resin for all three. Laminating resin to wet out and actually fiberglass the board. Sanding resin after the lamination stage to “fill” and smooth out the weave. Then sand the board and use the gloss.
AustinS.
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when you glass a board, do you use three diffrent types of resin? Is there a diffrent laminating resin, a sanding coat resin, and a gloss resin?
[Where I buy my supplies] yes :-
laminating… for what the name suggests
filler [called ‘hotcoat’ for you seppy boys] for filling the laminating’s little pinholes in, for sanding
gloss for glossing…
makes sense, doesn't it ?
ben