Prepping for paint . . .

Low viscosity.

 

Here's their 3 different thicknesses.

I use the medium viscosity for bonding, and the low viscosity for laminating glass.

 

Thanks for the lesson! I was confident that you had the knowledge. I'm looking forward to seeing more progress on your project! I was reading an article on a different forum and the author mentioned mixing a powder in to form a putty, which he used to fill. He basically said to round over the corners, then Build them back up with this mixture prior to banding the edges with glass fabric. I believe his reference point was on boat repair. It seemed to be overkill for my intent. Any thoughts?

 

Fortunately I did order low viscosity, multi purpose epoxy. I didn't realize the difference. Lucky for once!

 

Yeah, it's milled fibers. I use it quite often. Great for building inside radiuses.

It looks like flour. Mixed with resin, it'll make a real nice putty or filler. Mix up the resin and catalyst first and add scoops of the filled fibers till it's what you're needing.

 

I know on boats that the rear transoms are fiberglass covered and in the center where the motor mounts is marine plywood. So yes I'd cover it all with fiberglass.

 

Good stuff.

Vacuum bagging is so cool.

 

We are looking into vacuum bagging some of our parts

 

I was thinking the same. I've seen u tube vids of home brew vacuum bagging, not overly complicated. Those transomes are a dramatic improvement over the traditional plywood and fiberglass method. I have a bass boat that needs redone right now, I doubt it gets done by me, I don't have the energy I once had.

 

Hulk, have you seen this Smooth-On reusable silicone parts bag?

 

Yes I have seen that before. Very cool. we have did a lot of research and even went over the Ranger Boats and watched them doing vacuum bagging also.