how do I repair this?
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Topic: how do I repair this?
Posted By: ajbaldwin
Subject: how do I repair this?
Date Posted: 06 May 15 at 9:58pm
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Hi All I think my Vareo took a bang from another boat in the boat park so I have a small hole about the size of a 2 pence piece.(see attached) What is the best way/product to fix this? Thanks All   ------------- Yorkshire Dales SC Vareo 505 |
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Posted By: craiggo
Date Posted: 06 May 15 at 10:06pm
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Gelcoat filler.
Either buy the platic padding gelcoat filler from your local chandeler and accept that the colour wont match, or buy a pot of colour matched gel-coat from LDC although you will probably find due to UV degradation that the colours aren't perfectly matched but at least somewhere close. |
Posted By: Neptune
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 6:53am
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I would be wondering why the gel coat appears to be so far off the matting! ------------- Musto Skiff and Solo sailor |
Posted By: Do Different
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 7:09am
| I was puzzling over that apparent void as well. |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 7:28am
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Going back to the plastic padding colour match. I have used black humbrol enamel paint mixed in to get the right shade successfully for many years.a lot cheaper than buying the official stuff. And yes a bit concerning about the gelcoat having that gap and I've seen that on quite a few boats in the past. Perhaps try to wedge the filler into the gap as much as possible to create the bond between the two ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Paramedic
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 8:00am
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Its a void. very common, especially on tight corners of the mouldings, though this one is a whopper! Get some gelcoat from RS and just build it back up, reshape with 600 then 1200 wet/dry and polish it back. RS will be able to tell you what colour it is and supply an almost perfect match. Mist grey is always a good match, Platinum is more hit and miss.
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Posted By: johnreekie1980
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 12:12pm
| Quality laminated boat there eh. Even a company making bus bumpers with chopped strand matt would have done a better job. |
Posted By: Alistair426
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 2:12pm
| You will use one hell of a lot of gelcoat filling that void! Get rid of all the unbonded gelcoat and then fill the bulk of the remaining depression with filled (microfibres) epoxy. Make the surface good with gelcoat and finish, as Chris says above, with diminishing grades of wet & dry and then polish. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 2:22pm
| I think I would send a photo to RS and ask "Should I be concerned about this?" and see what happens. |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 2:53pm
Vareo 505.... hmm, I wonder where that one came from. |
Posted By: ajbaldwin
Date Posted: 07 May 15 at 3:42pm
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Thanks All
I double checked around the "void" and there are not soft spots and it appears to be firm so I doubt I will use much filler.
Thanks for the advice
Adam ------------- Yorkshire Dales SC Vareo 505 |
Posted By: zippyRN
Date Posted: 08 May 15 at 10:46am
| that's a big void ... but it's also an awkward location - far more complex than the bus bumper example |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 09 May 15 at 6:33pm
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Scary build quality. Ignoring the enormous void, the rest seems to be made from either those office supplies rubber band balls, or terrible CSM with no resin and certainly no vac bagging... Oh yes, I remember the whole offshore production thing now... ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: bernie
Date Posted: 11 May 15 at 2:14pm
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If that were mine, I'd be asking for my money back. ------------- Never sheet out. |