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Re: REFLECTOR: Strake filling reinforcement



At 06:26 PM 3/29/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Builders,

>Also I just sealed my strakes.  Maybe no one had this problem but I'll
>share it in case.  I was using 500 watt lights to warm and view my
>strakes for glassing.  It caused thousandso f bubbles to expand under
>the curing glass and required resanding.  Next time I heated the strake
>then applied the glass as the strake cooled.  The glass seems to have
>been sucked down with VERY few bubbles and pin holes.  Sanding pure
>glass was a nightmare.  FYI.
>

Same happened to me letting it cure in the hot sun. Some of the air trapped
in the outside of that blue foam wants out as it heats up.

Dave Brown