Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:59:53 +0000, Brian Nystrom wrote:


Toolowd wrote:

Well the problem lies in the fact that the polyester gelcoat would not stick
to the epoxy.

You will have to use poly. I won't stick as well, but will have to do.

Gelcoat is purely cosmetic and I'm far more concerned with the strength of the
underlying repair, so epoxy gets the nod for that. I've applied gelcoat over
epoxy repairs and it works fine as long as you sand the epoxy surface.


Sounds like I may need a "two-part solution"

For the jobs that need strength (like the stringers), I'll use epoxy, and
hope the gelcoat sticks ok. For the gouges, scratches, cracks, etc. that are
"purely cosmetic" I'll use poly/gelcoat.

That sounds like a sensible approach to me.

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Regards

Brian