Dan Hagen wrote: > > Philip wrote: > > > I've been following a lot of the suggestions for installing > > sacrificial fibreglass or Kevlar strips. I've been using for > > the last several years: Marine-Tex, [snipped and edited] > This stuff sounds great. I have a couple of questions. First, can it be > applied to gel coat, or do you need to remove the gel coat? Second, is > the stuff brittle? In other words, if you build up a fairly deep rub > strip, will it break off if you wack it laterally? [snip] Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Marine-Tex is filled epoxy -- probably with alumimum and/or glass fiber, IIRC. It is pretty durable, and sticks like hell to **roughened** fiberglass surfaces. Applied to gel coat, I'd guess the weak link would be the gel coat layer itself. No fibers in gel coat. A strip of glass epoxied on with some fumed silica (aka Cabosil) added as filler (or, for the truly abrasive folks: 200/400 grit corundum!) would probably be even more durable. Over on rec.boats.building they natter about using dyes in their epoxy. An email to System Three (http://www.systemthree.com/index.html) would probably net an authoritative answer from Kern Hendricks (himself somewhat abrasive, but very knowledgeable). -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Mar 15 1999 - 16:24:25 PST
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