Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Take your time when you lay the tape


Reinforced Stringers 1
Originally uploaded by OzzyC.
It's best to take your time when you set the fiberglass tape on the joints. If you fail to adequately saturate the tape with epoxy, or if you fail to adequately set the tape onto the wood, the tape won't bond well to the wood, as shown in this picture.

It's really not a big deal to correct this problem; all we had to do was cut away the tape that didn't bond to the wood, feather the edges and lay down another piece of saturated tape... but it would have been nice to have gotten it right the first time.

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