I have a slight stone chip about half a finger nail in area and about 1mm deep. What material could be used to repair the skin? I am thinking maybe Epifill.
hiya nick i have about the same problem but on the top part just infront of the back footstraps of an old classic of mine a Mistral flow 266 custom. i guess after pulling out the foot and stumping it to gybe it eventually after all these years cracked and sunk about that much too and water was oozing out after i left it out on the sun after a session. so am trying to bake it in the sun with the vent plug out. my question too is if i scrape the top off what will it replace it with. it seems that water has penetrated about a palm sized styro inside and a little bit of delamination. am thinking of just baking it for 2wks. and sealing it or opening it up around the 3cm. crack and exposing more it sure beats the brains out of me
If it's just gelcoat damage, use epifil. It's easy and sands down well.
JP747 - you'll need to cut out all the delam or you could try to inject epoxy resin or expanding foam (epoxy safe). If it's only palm sized i'd cut out and re-glass..
hey crash i've been holding off to prying it open till someone tells me too i guess i should
however there really is no injection system in our parts here only the way we fix it is use styropore and cut to dimensions overlap with white glue, resin and fibermat it and add woven roven fiber and seal that is after all is dry
You can just use syringes - but making sure you have holes for it to expand out of on the other side of the damage (so you don't make it worse!).
Shouldn't be too tricky and if it binds well it would be lot quicker.
some sort of gelcoat repair stuff, got this 2 part epoxy putty i use for this sort of thing, sands excellent..cant remember who made it right now, go to a fiberglass suppliers and they will sort your out...
