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Got the Trial kit. What Next...

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I purchased the trial kit. What is the best thing to make/build to get a handle on this process?

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Dont drink it :)

Take two pieces of scrap plywood and make angled joint (say 90 degree to keep it simple). Make a fillet, and glass over it, then fair the joint. Do both sides and you will have made a cross section of one our smaller boats.

Then build a boat :!:
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Post by Knottybuoyz »

I used some of the epoxy & glass in mine to fix the fender on a buddy's 4 Wheeler and some of the epoxy to try a resin infusion. You could use some ply scraps to make a joint and fillet and glass that to see how it works.
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A small center console is something you can use on a lot of the boats.

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If you have enough fiberglass I would:

1. Epoxy a piece of glass to a flat surface.

2. Build a small open box or at least a wood joint from 2 scrap boards (stitching the seams would be another good exercise)

a) Spot weld the seams together with epoxy/wood flour. After the spot weld cures, radius an edge and then go back and fill in one seam with epoxy/woodflour

b) laminate some tape over the seam.

c) Build a fillet on an inside seam with wood flour

d) Laminate some fiberglass over the inside joint & fillet. Preferably working "wet on wet"

3. Fair out the taped seams using the epoxy/blended filler.

4. Spray some rattle can primer over your faired surface so you can see how well the fairing job looks.

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Its a "trial kit", with just enough supplies to do what Shine recommended. That's it!
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Or do what I did make up a piece of wood set it in the corner and use the trial kit on the boat :oops: 8O :D
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