Anyone using polyester resin based products like Evercote Lite Weight fillers for their projects?
Equivalent products are available at any autobody store for about 30 bucks a gallon. I "discovered" these "lite" bondo type products a couple years ago when I did some body work on 1979 IH Scout summer car. These products are super easy to deal with - sand down fast. Before this I had only used the traditional multistrand bondo products that cure superhard.
Reason I ask:
I want to redo the fiberglass covering of an old canoe I fiberglassed in the early 70s & lite filler seems like a great cheap solution to fair over the hull before recovering it.
I already "searched" this site & saw a bunch of postings indicating epoxy products cover polyester just fine. And from the last 40 odd years this canoe has been around I observe that cheap polyestr based products can work just fine. This being true, it seems safe to assume that polyester resin cloth will stick to "lite" filler.
In about 1972 I retreived a sunk traditional canvas covered canoe out of a lake. It was in the shallows with both ends just above water. It had been there long enough that ends were rotted. I took it home and stripped the canvas & trim off. Everything except the ends were still solid so I used some 1/4 inch plywood to replace the rotted sections, faired the patched areas in with automotive bondo & glassed over the whole thing without concerning myself with smoothing over the surface. I may have used the canoe once or twice before giving it to my Dad & brothers. It has been hanging in my folks garage now for at least 20 years. One of my brothers used it alot and as primative as my skills were, it didn't leak.
I actually forgot about it but remembered I kinda sorta own a canoe when I started contemplating a new mobile duck boat hunting project.
Equivalent products are available at any autobody store for about 30 bucks a gallon. I "discovered" these "lite" bondo type products a couple years ago when I did some body work on 1979 IH Scout summer car. These products are super easy to deal with - sand down fast. Before this I had only used the traditional multistrand bondo products that cure superhard.
Reason I ask:
I want to redo the fiberglass covering of an old canoe I fiberglassed in the early 70s & lite filler seems like a great cheap solution to fair over the hull before recovering it.
I already "searched" this site & saw a bunch of postings indicating epoxy products cover polyester just fine. And from the last 40 odd years this canoe has been around I observe that cheap polyestr based products can work just fine. This being true, it seems safe to assume that polyester resin cloth will stick to "lite" filler.
In about 1972 I retreived a sunk traditional canvas covered canoe out of a lake. It was in the shallows with both ends just above water. It had been there long enough that ends were rotted. I took it home and stripped the canvas & trim off. Everything except the ends were still solid so I used some 1/4 inch plywood to replace the rotted sections, faired the patched areas in with automotive bondo & glassed over the whole thing without concerning myself with smoothing over the surface. I may have used the canoe once or twice before giving it to my Dad & brothers. It has been hanging in my folks garage now for at least 20 years. One of my brothers used it alot and as primative as my skills were, it didn't leak.
I actually forgot about it but remembered I kinda sorta own a canoe when I started contemplating a new mobile duck boat hunting project.