Intermediate Mariner
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2010
- Messages
- 190
Morning Gents,
Have two questions, one about resin and the other about model of boat.
I am working on a Red Fish. Does anyone know the model? I am thinking a 61 shark or inland or baylap... ayone know (notice how is has only 3 slats on the sides).
Also I am kinda worried about this resin issue. Having never worked with fiberglass before I was naive when I picked up the 3M fiberglass polyester resin from wally world (wondering now why in the heck they don't have epoxy on the shelf).
I have seen that you do not want to use polyester resin. I am seeing MANY people prefer epoxy.
Here is what I did. After removing transom I heavily sanded the transom area along the bottom and sides and they coated with a couple layers of fiberglass cloth and polyester resin. I am wondering if that was used in it's original construction because despite people saying that poly does not stick to epoxy is has bonded wonderfully.
I am now ready to install transom. As you probably know, after the original transom they caked up layers of some sort of resin connecting the transom to the sides, it's built up pretty good.
Should I use epoxy resin when installing transom? Will they fact that I coated everything in the polyester make a difference?
Also, for some reason the transom is smaller. I traced it off the old one and cut it out and its smaller, go figure. I guess the sanding along the sides did it. I had planned to pour some resin down the side gap and fill it up. Will epoxy pour good and will it be ok that I coated the surfaces in polyester.
I am hoping that if I build it up heavy I should be good.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Shawn T
Wichita KS