Super Jet Deepening the chines on old super jet questions

I want to glue a fiberglass rod to the tip of each chine then blend and fill in the gap from the rod to the hull. Will normal kitty hair/mar glass work. Im scared that wont bond to smc.

What would be a think sandable product that would blend well and bond to smc.

once done i would epoxy resin glass over top a few layers.
 

Byeai

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Melbourne FL
It will just scuff up the smc quite a bit best step of glass is prep same with paint

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I want to glue a fiberglass rod to the tip of each chine then blend and fill in the gap from the rod to the hull. Will normal kitty hair/mar glass work. Im scared that wont bond to smc.

What would be a think sandable product that would blend well and bond to smc.

once done i would epoxy resin glass over top a few layers.

the "kitty hair" im familiar with is poly resin based not epoxy.
thickened epoxy with micro balloons or cabosil would be a better choice imo
 
i've got a 96 750sxi here that somebody turned into a pro by doing the same thing. it is coming off and falling apart. a lot of time and energy spent on something that probably wont last and then its a mess.
 

naticen

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I did it on my 750SX. I laid a hardwood dowel, peanut butter cabosil, I think 2 layers of 8 or 10oz, then some more cabosil or some filler. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but that's the gist. It's still there and I beach it all the time and drag it in and out of my truck and I have no fear of it breaking off or peeling. It's a couple years old now.
 

ArtMaybee

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Mobile, AL
Unless you want it to come apart fairly easy, don't use kitty hair or bondo of any polyester resin product on your watercraft. When I rebuilt my SN, somebody had made several major repairs to the hell using polyester resin. using a scraper and hammer, I was able to peel most of the patches out intact within only a few minutes. There was practically no bond at all.

Epoxy resin, cabosil, chopped glass fibers.. mix to peanut butter consistancy. The chopped glass will add more strength to the "putty" sort of like kitty hair.

Use whatever form you wish to make the desired shape. Just remember you will add thickness with the glass. You might want to also think about a layer of kevlar on the outside of your additions. Kevlar is extremely abrasion resistant so will help to keep problems down.

Be warned... the cabosil will make the resin a PAIN to sand. Build your structure sand to basic shape with low grit paper and then fair it with epoxy resin mixed with micro balloons. This will make an epoxy equivalent of bondo that's light and easy to sand.
 
So better to use cabosil for structure. And not micro balloons?

I bought usc gal fast epoxy, glass fibers, cabosil, and micro balloons. And oak towels.

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naticen

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wilmington, nc
Correct, micro balloons are good for body work but not good for structure. You can do the cabosil first, you should mix in some milled fibers too, and then as thin as you can get with the micro balloons to make it look pretty and smooth.
 
i used a 1/4 inch wooden rod from lowes, few layers of bondo sanded down and used epoxy resin with 3 layers of 6oz cloth with 1 layer of 17oz biaxial mat over the strakes...i would use several layers of cloth before using strand.. if you fiberglass over the strakes then bondo will be fine.. my ski has held up 2 hard seasons lake and surf, beaches getting ridden just about every weekend and has still held up fine..
 

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Epoxy resin, chop strand, cabosil blending a half inch oak dowel

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