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I forgot who it was but they made a cover out of that plastic lumber that they use for decks, looked real nice!
On my Sea Ox I had to remove the cover to fix gas tank when I bought it, its a huge cover!! I say about 3 feet buy 6 feet, I call it the coffin as that's what it looks like (110 gal) Sea Ox used PVC pipe cut in half glassed under the cover to help with flex, floor is solid!
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02-20-2012, 07:26 AM
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One other note is you will probably end up painting some sort of non-skid surface when you pop the product from the mold.
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02-20-2012, 12:35 PM
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Again thanks for the help guys. I got it now Ridge, Duratec = primer. I think the gent you mentioned was Strick, what a talented guy. I still however am not sure about the molding clay, dues it get rock hard or do i need to press gently as i use the roller to remove the air bubbles? and i think i might use the factory grey color gelcoat that i have left over from redoing the rest of the deck this past summer. Cant wait to see how this comes out. thanks ,
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02-28-2012, 10:12 AM
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If you can use the gelcoat that would be great. The modeling clay needs to be glassed over gently. It is tougher than you think. Yes, Strick definitely has skills.. Any updates?
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02-28-2012, 07:43 PM
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hey Ridge, today i layed in the modeling clay and that was a job in itself, then i sprayed in a wax release. Tomorrow i will stop and pick up a Preval sprayer to shoot the PVA then i hope to have enough time to gelcoat. so yes i am moving along. I have one question though. strick mentioned that he does one layer of fiberglass tape over the modeling clay, do you think i can cut strips from my 3/4 mat or do i have to use the tape. thanks john
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02-29-2012, 07:48 AM
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I think his tape is just mat tape. You can definitely cut the mat into strips for that. Any woven fabric there and you would be able to see the weave in the reflection of the gelcoat (print through). The roller type bubble poppers will have to be used lightly on the clay like you said. Have a brush ready to do some light dabbing. Oh and
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02-29-2012, 08:53 PM
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once again
well i put a coat of unwaxed gelcoat on the mold today then i ran 2 inch strips of fiberglass tape and resin around the entire inside corner of mold over the molding clay . next i layed in one layer of 1 1/2 oz mat with resin ,had to stop thier because i had work to do that actually pays. i really wanted to put on another layer of glass just so i wouldn't have to sand between coats. It was hard to do but not as hard as i thought it might be. i will say i am so glad i bought the rollers to roll out the resin, that would have been a disaster, i took pics of the whole thing so far but left the camera at work or i would have tried to post them here tonight, i'll try and post them tomorrow night beacause as we all know
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