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fitvit
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 Posted - 20 May 2016 : 23:50:32
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Cheers DF you're quite right, the gel coat seems to be coming up a treat! I've found two spots of filler but they're only small and positioned well enough for my glass of prossecco to sit on - out of sight, out of mind for now lol.
I've decided that tomorrow is the day I'm going to taking an angle grinder to the hull to rid it off the toilet inlet and outlet and then give myself a lesson on how to fibre glass using the shopping list recommended by Clive and Deano several posts back eeeeekkkk.
jojo 
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df
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21 May 2016 : 10:06:27
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Be very careful in your repair! 2 weeks ago I was part of a late night rescue attempt outside a pub in norfolk as a nice boat was taking on lots of water, no matter how much pumping occured it still sank, turns out it was an old toilet outlet that had been patched over that had let go but was under panels so couldn't find the leak.
This was a twin engine boat that had very recently had a bssc and full survey and was in the process of a sale negotiation at the time, needless to say the sale didn't go through.
I didn't help when I suggested a name change to Sunky McSunkface...
NBAS--The communal colostomy bag of the boating community.
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fitvit
United Kingdom
94 Posts |
Posted - 21 May 2016 : 11:16:31
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hahaha. Well I've just ridded mine of a pint of water which was sat in the keel. I'm hoping it was down to leaky window/condensation, but I keep looking at the outlets and wondering if it could be anything to do with them, so I'm going to eliminate all possibilities by getting rid of 'em once and for all . . . and hopefully do a magnificent repair job with the help of my best mate Google!
jojo
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Deano
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21 May 2016 : 13:32:59
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Hmmmm..... I wonder if the repair that let go was made with epoxy resin or polyester????
Dean - Boating on the Great Ouse.
Freeman 32 "Liberty"
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fitvit
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21 May 2016 : 15:11:43
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So is this right for repairing a hole. Cut the hole, sand down to taper the edges, clean up with acetone, cut 4 overlapping layers of biaxial fibreglass cloth (each layer being 4cm larger than the last) wet each cloth with polyester resin and roller them on one by one??
jojo
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Best way to tidy up the worst paint job ever!
