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Use Cold cure epoxy. Good down to 2 degrees C

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Finished. First coat of cetol light on.

Well a quick update on the scarfs. Did the fill with epoxy and sanded it. Now i put a skim coat over to fill in some some pits.

All done, now to bleed the system. Need the admiral to assist.

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Helm pump

So i have a lower help pump that leaks from the shaft and the turn adjusting knob. I have a gasket kit. Sounds like a good weekend project. Now i need to find a replacement kit to replenish my stock.

most of ny scarfs are perfect. But i have a few that opened up with the movment of the boat over time.

Do you mean to put cetol on before the epoxy?

So i inquired around and was tild to use cold cure epoxy. One, its colder out. Two, it has a little flexibility in it.

So i began today with removing the stantions and stripping the cetol off of the scarf joints. I am using a fine tooth jigsaw blade to clean out the joints. So far so good. I did notice, as soon as i removed the cetol down to bare wood there was quite a bit of damp wood under the bad spots

Yes not varnishing yet but want to fix the scarfs.

Yes, its pricy and i never used it before. I heard good things about. I wonder if someone on TF has any experience with.

Do you have any experience with Gflex epoxy?

Well the weather is getting fairly nice out during the day, so i decided to do some fixing of a couple bright work issue's on my toe rail scarfs. The question i have is what is the best course of action to make these water tight. I have two scarf joints that seperated and have 1 to 2 mm gap in...

Having a single helps

Petit easypoxy is very good quality paint.

Sorry just looked at your profile so im no help

Where are you located? If on Vancouver island try windsor plywood. They have lots of different exotic woods

I have some more small areas to do and some engine paint touch ups then the plan is to scrub the bilges out. They are mostly dry but still a pain to do.

Getting some winter projects ticked off the list.