Muddy Toes
12-08-2012, 04:01 PM
Now I've got rid of my transom mount transducer I'm left with a few screw holes in the transom.I bought some epoxy to fill them with and some Flowcoat brush on stuff to finish them off with.
So as per the instructions of the guy I bought the stuff off I filled the holes with Epoxy and sanded them back so the epoxy is flush with the hull.All good, except for when I painted the Flowcoat on and sanded it back obviously the Flowcoat was all sanded off because the epoxy ended up being flush with the hull.I thought it was a bit strange when he was explaining it and I even asked him whether or not to leave the epoxy a bit shallower than the existing but he assured me to just make it flush.
So a couple of strange blokes came round this morning and told me I need to get the epoxy a bit shy of the hull and build the rest up with Flowcoat which makes sense to me so I did and all is good in the world for the time being.
So my question is......How thick/deep can Flowcoat be applied?
Second question is how do I fill in spider cracks.I've got a couple where self tapping screws were used but the cracks aren't big/wide enough to take any Flowcoat.Do I need to gouge out a 'V' along it so it takes the stuff or am I totally off track.
I'm only a newbie to this whole repairing thing but I don't want to wreck my boat by doing a half-assed job on it.
Cheers.
So as per the instructions of the guy I bought the stuff off I filled the holes with Epoxy and sanded them back so the epoxy is flush with the hull.All good, except for when I painted the Flowcoat on and sanded it back obviously the Flowcoat was all sanded off because the epoxy ended up being flush with the hull.I thought it was a bit strange when he was explaining it and I even asked him whether or not to leave the epoxy a bit shallower than the existing but he assured me to just make it flush.
So a couple of strange blokes came round this morning and told me I need to get the epoxy a bit shy of the hull and build the rest up with Flowcoat which makes sense to me so I did and all is good in the world for the time being.
So my question is......How thick/deep can Flowcoat be applied?
Second question is how do I fill in spider cracks.I've got a couple where self tapping screws were used but the cracks aren't big/wide enough to take any Flowcoat.Do I need to gouge out a 'V' along it so it takes the stuff or am I totally off track.
I'm only a newbie to this whole repairing thing but I don't want to wreck my boat by doing a half-assed job on it.
Cheers.