**This is part 1 of my Gelcoat-Refit-Series**
Part 2: • GELCOAT statt Lack?! 🖌...
I need to repair Biber’s gelcoat. Especially on the stern the gelcoat is in pretty bad shape, it has hairline cracks and some bigger holes and the laminate sort of shines through in places. Any professional will tell you: as long as you can get away with just polishing the gelcoat, don’t do anything else. Well, I am at that point now - because the gelcoat has been polished like crazy for the past 50 years!
Usually you would go about this as follows: open up the hairline cracks using a Dremel, fill them with epoxy, sand down the deck, apply some primer, and then paint the deck. Well, the problem with that is that paint is not very thick and sturdy but it scratches easily. And this entire process takes so long that I don’t want to be doing that again in a couple of years’ time. Also, once you’ve worked with epoxy you can’t ever go back to polyester (not ready for that step yet). So, here’s how I go about this: I open up the hairline cracks using a Dremel, then I fill them with polyester resin, sand down the deck, and apply gelcoat. That way, I use only products on a polyester basis (since gelcoat and topcoat are also on a polyester basis) This procedure is not that well-known in Europe so it might not seem as conventional. However, in the US this is widely applied.
This is a selection of the products that I use and that I can highly recommend:
Maschines:
Sander Bosch Blau: amzn.to/2ZfmvVT
Makita Beltsander: amzn.to/2IAXQE9
Dremel: amzn.to/2LZM9c4
Fein Multimaster: amzn.to/2AWlDtS
Sanding paper:
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Klingspor: amzn.to/2MpSVXJ
Matador: amzn.to/2AZMcyh
Sanding disks for the sander: amzn.to/2MqhhAx
Abrasive sanding mesh: amzn.to/2PMTOfV
Gelcoat etc:
Scales: amzn.to/2ARXDbq (not the ones that broke in the video lol)
Gelcoat (Topcoat): www.svb.de/de/...
Chopped strand matting 300g/qm: amzn.to/2B5Vvgx
Polyester resin incl. hardener: amzn.to/2MsnfAT
In the next video I’ll also be using
Gelcoat: www.castrocomp...
Gelcoat-Polish: amzn.to/396IAdJ
Additional equipment:
Tesa tape for indoors: amzn.to/33ki5y1
Tesa tape for outdoors: amzn.to/2MoZNoh
RAL-colours: amzn.to/2Vp3WfV
Mask: amzn.to/2LVvXsy
ABEK-Filter: amzn.to/2Mqj8Fv
dust filter: amzn.to/2oooQzK
I enjoy working with these products, this is no paid advertising. If you click on the above links you will pay the same amount of money as you would otherwise, but I will get a small share of the profits from Amazon.
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29 авг 2024
