jimmwaller
Petty Officer 1st Class
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Hi all:
About to gluvit my hull (finally!) and I have one last question.
I'm planning to just paint it on, and I see how it gets the center seams: gravity pulls it down through any leaks and it seals it up. But I also feel like I have some seams that are further up on the sides of the hull that will be under the waterline, but aren't where gravity can get the gluvit.
So there's one seam in particular that I'm worried about. it's on the side of the hull, and the "top" of the seam is fine, it's the "bottom" the leaks. So if I just paint the gluvit over the seam, since the "top" side is sealed, it'll just run OVER the outside of the seam and drip down the hull. I need some way to force the gluvit up the bottom side of the seam. Do I just use a syringe? but then I'm worried that not only will this take forever but the gluvit will just run right back out again (i hear it's fairly runny). Do I need to tilt the boat so I can let gravity do the work for me? that seems really difficult to do, as the boat is in dry storage on a trailer and there's no real infrastructure to allow that to happen. So I need to open up the top seam, so the gluvit can flow down?
Any insights would be very much appreciated, as I am at a total loss.
Thank you all!
About to gluvit my hull (finally!) and I have one last question.
I'm planning to just paint it on, and I see how it gets the center seams: gravity pulls it down through any leaks and it seals it up. But I also feel like I have some seams that are further up on the sides of the hull that will be under the waterline, but aren't where gravity can get the gluvit.
So there's one seam in particular that I'm worried about. it's on the side of the hull, and the "top" of the seam is fine, it's the "bottom" the leaks. So if I just paint the gluvit over the seam, since the "top" side is sealed, it'll just run OVER the outside of the seam and drip down the hull. I need some way to force the gluvit up the bottom side of the seam. Do I just use a syringe? but then I'm worried that not only will this take forever but the gluvit will just run right back out again (i hear it's fairly runny). Do I need to tilt the boat so I can let gravity do the work for me? that seems really difficult to do, as the boat is in dry storage on a trailer and there's no real infrastructure to allow that to happen. So I need to open up the top seam, so the gluvit can flow down?
Any insights would be very much appreciated, as I am at a total loss.
Thank you all!
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