[bolger] Re: Oh No! Crash! Burn! Epoxy Failure!!!
>> Two days later I had a nonadhesive bubblegum like goop. The onlyTwo words: User Error
>> thing I can say is it was relatively easy to clean with acetone.
>
>Hmm. This is the second time that this failure mode has happened
>from this particular batch of epoxy. "Once is a freak occurrence,
>twice is a coincidence, and three times is enemy action." We're
>still on "two", but do let us know if it happens again....
>
I have no doubt my "failure" was because of a mismix. I eyeballed the
ratio because seeing the fish busting outside got me too excited to
take the time and go get a plastic soup spoon from the lunch wagon to
measure correctly.
Yesterday when I went back and did it correctly, the resin set up rock hard.
YIBB,
David
C.E.P.
415 W.46th Street
New York, New York 10036
http://www.crumblingempire.com
Mobile (646) 325-8325
Office (212) 247-0296
> Two days later I had a nonadhesive bubblegum like goop. The onlyHmm. This is the second time that this failure mode has happened
> thing I can say is it was relatively easy to clean with acetone.
from this particular batch of epoxy. "Once is a freak occurrence,
twice is a coincidence, and three times is enemy action." We're
still on "two", but do let us know if it happens again....
--
Susan Davis <futabachan@...>
--- In bolger@y..., David Ryan <david@c...> wrote:
fun yet?".
> FBBB --you seem to have conclusively answered the question "Are we having
>
> Well it was bound to happen -- treat your boat like a surfboard and
> it's going to get dinged up like surfboard.
>
> Epoxy failure isn't exactly the title that comes to mind. Still,
fun yet?".
FBBB --
Well it was bound to happen -- treat your boat like a surfboard and
it's going to get dinged up like surfboard.
I was down at the beach a few days ago. No surf to speak of and no
fish either, so I decided to take my Gull out and see how well it
handled as a surfboard. I developed a pretty slick technique where
I'd pull into a wave, then in one motion ship the oars and pull
myself into a surfer's stance in the stern of the boat. This might
have been fun, except the swell was more out of the South than the
East, so the line of the ride was taking me disturbingly close to the
jetty. After a few rides I spotted some fish outside, so I headed in
to get my tackle.
On the way in I took off on a small wave intending to take it onto
the beach, but at the last minute it walled up, "Toby" broached, and
then me, the wave, and the boat dumped on the sand and the boat
swamped. I don't know when, but some where between being dumped, and
flipping the boat to drain it, I cracked the gunnel. The Teal
"Lil'Winnie" is taken much harder hits and its Doug Fir gunnels have
held up, so the likelihood of using mahogany again has gotten even
more remote, but it looked like more work to chisel/grind what I've
got off and replace it with Doug Fir. So I hauled the boat up the
dune to let it dry out and came down the next day with my epoxy and
glass dust to fix it up.
Of course now the fish were busting all over the place. I just needed
a little bit of glue, so I eye-balled the mix, slammed it into place,
clamped it and figured I'd be fishing in a few hours.
Two days later I had a nonadhesive bubblegum like goop. The only
thing I can say is it was relatively easy to clean with acetone. I
*carefully* measured up a new batch, and while I was at it glued on
some cleats for my oar sockets so they'll stand upright.
I should be able to fish by this evening.
YIBB,
David
C.E.P.
415 W.46th Street
New York, New York 10036
http://www.crumblingempire.com
Mobile (646) 325-8325
Office (212) 247-0296
Well it was bound to happen -- treat your boat like a surfboard and
it's going to get dinged up like surfboard.
I was down at the beach a few days ago. No surf to speak of and no
fish either, so I decided to take my Gull out and see how well it
handled as a surfboard. I developed a pretty slick technique where
I'd pull into a wave, then in one motion ship the oars and pull
myself into a surfer's stance in the stern of the boat. This might
have been fun, except the swell was more out of the South than the
East, so the line of the ride was taking me disturbingly close to the
jetty. After a few rides I spotted some fish outside, so I headed in
to get my tackle.
On the way in I took off on a small wave intending to take it onto
the beach, but at the last minute it walled up, "Toby" broached, and
then me, the wave, and the boat dumped on the sand and the boat
swamped. I don't know when, but some where between being dumped, and
flipping the boat to drain it, I cracked the gunnel. The Teal
"Lil'Winnie" is taken much harder hits and its Doug Fir gunnels have
held up, so the likelihood of using mahogany again has gotten even
more remote, but it looked like more work to chisel/grind what I've
got off and replace it with Doug Fir. So I hauled the boat up the
dune to let it dry out and came down the next day with my epoxy and
glass dust to fix it up.
Of course now the fish were busting all over the place. I just needed
a little bit of glue, so I eye-balled the mix, slammed it into place,
clamped it and figured I'd be fishing in a few hours.
Two days later I had a nonadhesive bubblegum like goop. The only
thing I can say is it was relatively easy to clean with acetone. I
*carefully* measured up a new batch, and while I was at it glued on
some cleats for my oar sockets so they'll stand upright.
I should be able to fish by this evening.
YIBB,
David
C.E.P.
415 W.46th Street
New York, New York 10036
http://www.crumblingempire.com
Mobile (646) 325-8325
Office (212) 247-0296