Crap work

[Barrowboy]

Ah, ok. That's why you do it professionally and I don't!

[biffer]

Deck panels glassed both sides

[C-NUMB]

Originally Posted by biffer

The paste has chop strands in it, it's a bugger to use, it's fairly flexible and has more or less the same characteristics as Gell

On one boat removed a stringer where the "rounding" had been done with a polyester & fumed silica mix(i think). It was very hard an britle stuff, and it was suprising to see how cracked and partly loose from both the hull and stringer it was, adding only weight but no strenght.

So think its important that the paste/filler used in this application maintains at least some flexibility.

[biffer]

Silica and Gell mix is usually just a filler and is like a dust the you mix with Gell. It's only as strong as the Gell, we don't need to put it in really as the mat that we've put in will more than do the job, it just there to soften the corners and make consolidating it a bit easier

[biffer]

Nearly forgot

This bit is important as mat on its own isn't waterproof.
Should go back to another asking why some boats are dearer than others. I would bet that 70% of ribs aren't Gell washed below deck

[paul tilley]

bet the % that are not gel washed under the deck is higher than 80%

[beamishken]

so whats the difference between gel wash and flowcoat or are they the same thing?
ive helped my pal build a few boats but never herd of gel wash

[biffer]

Same thing, we used to save all the old Gell bits in a big drum and use it, don't matter what colour it is, it's only used to seal the matt

[Bigtalljv]

do you use a polyester resin or epoxy resin to do the rebuild work?

[biffer]

This is poly

[biffer]

Floor and cable trunking going in

[biffer]

Wibs. You could get a post this week. My gut feeling is this gauge won't work

[macattack101]

Here is an example of a professional GRP repair that I waited 2 months for. Got home after a 20 min tow and here's the result. I left it to the experts as I have no experience of fibreglassing but it seems that I'm not the only one.
After returning the boat I was told not to worry as they would fix it free of charge....WTF!
Now waiting to see result of 2nd attempt.

[biffer]

Ouch, not an easy repair though, it cracked because something is on the move, you can't just Gell over it to hide it, and I'm not saying that's what they done, you could open the crack even further, clean it out, stuff a load of wet matt in there with a scraper and clamp it back down, when it's dry then Gell over it, that's the easy way and it may fail again, the proper way would be to cut all the loose stuff out and start again

[Wibs]

Originally Posted by biffer

My gut feeling is this gauge won't work

The bloke I bought it from was a bit of a DIYer......

That's the last time I trust a man with ginger hair.


I'm sure you'll put it right Biff...

[biffer]

The ginger ninja will be slashing your tubes mate

[biffer]

Haven't posted this old girl for a while, knocked back into a boat now, not a wreck anymore

[whisper]

Looks awesome, what a transformation from what it was

[Low Flyer]

Thing of beauty,top bloke must have done that 😊😊

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by Low Flyer

Thing of beauty,top bloke must have done that 😊😊

Biff got some help in then???
.....Looking Good Mate