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Questions about boat repairs with our resins and fiberglass: hull patches, transoms and stringers, foam, rot etc.
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I'm smelling epoxy this weekend...
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Woke to a cool, cloudy morning with rain on its way.
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Went out and put up visqueen walls that I kept after repainting Clara two years ago, and we all knocked out another coat of epoxy and I taped up the transom and rear deck with 3 staggered layers of 8" wide 12 ounce tape.
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Just in time...
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Will the epoxy blush if it cures while raining? I work with WEST and although it's supposed to be bad for blushing, I rarely see it.

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I've never seen blush with BBC Marine epoxy but we'll see. I've also never applied epoxy in these conditions.
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I see some blush with the fast but not the slow, which is what i tend to use anyway.
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Have never used the fast and now only use the slow. Gives me time to recover...
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Stopped by the boat on the way out this morning. Marine Epoxy with slow hardner will blush if used when the high temperatures are below 70 and the humidity is 100%. 8) Actually a pretty good amount of blush

Fortunately that was the last coat of epoxy and I already told the guys they would need to lightly sand and clean any epoxy coated area prior to laying down any fairing compound, primer, or paint.

The epoxy is hard as a rock, so just a blush issue.
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No problem then. In my experience if you wet sand with 3M scotch Brite green scouring pads you will give it some tooth and remove the blush all at once. I go over two or three times. First time is a scrub, then I rinse then I go over again applying a bit more force. Seems to work. Just plain water if I'm told correctly.

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