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Old 09-07-2015 | 08:26 PM
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Applied the first gel coat. This will be an all epoxy mold. The gel coat is made by mixing West 404 high density filler and graphite with epoxy. The mixture is filler 30% of resin weight and graphite 7% of resin weight. This is a fairly thick mixture and is brushed on. I am going to apply 3 layers of the gel coat. Now that I have started this process I need to apply each layer before the preceding one fully cures so as to get a molecular bond between the layers. That means another coat tonight and another tomorrow morning etc.etc.

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