Re: [Paddlewise] Spider cracks in my new Romany

I've never tried this. It might work but if they are cracks it might be a
pain with the pencil lead leaking out over time.
Okay, I just tried it on a piece of hatch cut-out I had bent outward to put
stress cracks in the gelcoat. So much for speculation, it is harder to clean
off the pencil "lead" I rubbed on from the good gelcoat than it is from the
cracks. It did show up the real cracks while I was doing it though. Perhaps
powdered charcoal or ashes would avoid marking up the gelcoat with pencil
"lead" and still show up real cracks.
Unfortunately, I don't have a spider print imprinted piece handy to compare
it to. It might collect charcoal too.

Matt Broze
http://www.marinerkayaks.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert C. Cline [mailto:rccline_at_swbell.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:17 PM
> To: PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Spider cracks in my new Romany
>
>
> Matt:  What do you think about rubbing down the area with pencil lead?  If
> they are cracks, the graphite would probably get into the cracks
> and resist
> being wiped away.
>
> Robert

Matt Broze
http://www.marinerkayaks.com


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