heheh.... Funny how it does that. Sometimes you mix it exactly the same, but one or two extra drops of hardener and it kicks like that.
If that happens again, it's best to get it spread. The heat means it's working quickly, but if you spread it out thin, it can't hold its heat and cause that runaway thermal reaction.
The heat kicks it way quicker. Also, having a large amount of mixed resin is a bigger thermal mass. If you can feel/smell it starting to kick, get it out of the cup. Spread it around and you'll get more time to work it into your cloth.
No worries about getting it worked. By the time I noticed the vapor boiling off I was able to strip gloves for the last time and snag that pic.
Its dried enough that it isn't tacky now. Probably means it is still soft on the inside. I peeled the bottom where I had the ducting tape and found a big ole bubble that I wasn't able to get out due to it being upside down, so I guess I get to flip the damned thing over again and do that one more time.
Did two layers of chopped on the inside, one just covering the cracks, the next about an inch all around it, then covered with a piece of woven mat.
Soon I'll be going up to Tallahassee to visit my Dad, sister, and neice for Memorial Day. I'll make sure its waterproof when I get back. If it is, who knows, maybe when I flip the thing over to fill that bubble and smooth the bottom I'll end up cleaning off that horrendous patch just north of this one.
So I think I'm fairly happy with how I'm doing with the fiberglass repair. I redid the ugly patch and then redid the outer portion of the hull that I wasn't happy with
Now though, I need to work on gelcoat. What do I need to know about gelcoat? I'll do a little bit on these as a test portion, but I'm planning on a nice thin coat on all of the inside the boat to prevent fiberglass fibers (which it is already doing)
Toyman01 + Sized and said:This guy is very good. He's a bit of a talker and will recommend the products that sponsor him but his workmanship is top notch.
https://www.youtube.com/user/boatworkstoday
He primarily uses polyester resin.
I have been that route before and it worked great for about 10 years. At this point, I would use epoxy for the resin. It's what I used on the jet boat.
I'll second the bit of a talker and recomends the sponsors products, but he disimenates tons of know how.
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