I'm hardly getting any time on the boat at the moment, with business trips, holidays etc, but picked up the centreboard tonight to do a bit more theraputic shaping, and ended up with a sticky black hand. The graphite filled epoxy I'd filled the leading edge groove with has not gone off. The trailing edge is alright, it's just the last mix I m I then spent a very messy hour trying to dig out the soft black gooee mess, yuk ! It was like clearing up an oil slick. I remember mixing this epoxy in a hurry and not measuring or weighing it out properly- BIG MISTAKE. Trouble is, the epoxy is so soft and sticky I can't get it all out of the groove and any left will bung up my tools, get everywhere and spoil my finishes etc aarrrgggghh I've tried acetone but it doesn't seem to shift it all. So much for boat building tonight, I give up now !
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daryl
6/26/2012 12:43:21 am
The only thing I can think of is, as you are going to be fairing down eventually to a hard epoxy mix. Is to sacrifice a router bit to the great epoxy god and cut a slightly bigger groove and do the same with some 40 grit sand paper to take off the rest of the sticky stuff off the front edge. ( Maybe do this the other way round - sand first, route second ). That is if no sort of chemical is working.
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Steve
6/27/2012 04:57:05 am
The Acetone should work on wet epoxy. Flash kitchen wipes are good for getting it off hands might work on your tools Dave.
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