This method can also work, but many of my seams were fully vertical and this makes that method a drippy mess.BarraMan wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:50 am There is more than one way to skin a cat!
My boat is 22' long and I wet out at least 1000' of 6" x 12 oz biax glass tape in my build. I wet out all of it, by myself, using only hard foam rollers - hundreds of them!
I'll stand my glassing up against anyones!
Here's what I did:
1) measure the length of tape required for the job. Cut the correct length of tape and roll it up.
2) wet out the area to be taped and let it kick - then when its just tacky roll fresh epoxy onto 3 or 4 feet.
3) roll out the glass tape to within the last 3 or 4 inches of the freshly wet area, then wet out the tape until it looks clear.
4) repeat (3) until the jobs done!
I used slow hardener because I worked in temps around 80-90oF, but even so I had time to mix the epoxy in batches as required - learnt early in the build.
I used the exact same method for my large glassing runs, although I did engage an assistant (wife) to follow up on the wetting out and chasing air bubbles!
Said assistant also came in handy for roll and tip painting - tipping my rolled on paint!
For her, she could pull this off. The main thing is to get the tapes fully wetted before gel time; otherwise they will not wetout and be white and the tape is then junk in the white area.