On Feb 3, 9:26 pm, wrote:
On Feb 3, 9:04 pm, Frogwatch wrote:



On Feb 3, 8:56 pm, Frogwatch wrote:

On Feb 3, 8:43 pm, HK wrote:

Frogwatch wrote:
OK its not a boat, its the camper I am building.

I thought you were opposed to abortions, and now you are building one, eh?

I'll admit, my first boat was an abortion. I rebuilt it though.

My first boat (12' MiniCup sailboat) really was a sort of
Frankenboat. Being pathologically unable to follow directions,
everything I do turns into an experiment. When I ran out of epoxy
thickener, I looked around for powdery materials on hand, hmmm, cement
dust, nah, flour? No, bug'sll eat it, Sevin dust? Hmm, insecticide
dust as an epoxy thickener sounded like a great idea. Combine bug
killer and epoxy in one. It actually worked but even I got scared to
use ita lot.
Ran out of epoxy, tried Gorilla Glue, awful stuff for a boat but it
worked long enough. Eventually it does lose adhesion in water though
and the mast step collapsed.

Get ahold of Larry at RAKA.com and get some cold cure hardner and
epoxy. He is right down there in FLA.. It will cure fine for building
and harden nicely without getting brittle. The full cure will only
happen over 70 like any other epoxy but cold cure will set up down
near the freezing point and harden well enough for construction...

Tell him Scotty At SmallBoats.com sent you please..

Am trying to use up about 2 gals of old epoxy so I'll just wait till
it gets war later this week.