Re: Leak at traveler - minifish
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George ?does pretty much as I did. His step by step is good.
?? An extra step I'd do, if the hole is larger, is, before glassing the outer surface, put some glass mat on a cardboard backer, a little larger than the hole... run a knotted string thru the center of that "sandwich". Add the resin, stuff this sandwich thru the hole into the interior and pull the string tight to get the wet mat up against the back of the hole from the inside. ?You can twist the string like a tourniquet to keep it tight until cured, then snip the string and finish the exterior glassing repair. ? What this does for you is lock the new glass together to the old with a ?lot more contact surface than before, and give even more surface to attach the patch to.
On my bow repair, ?a catcher's mitt-sized section of the entire bow was missing. ?The auto parts store sold some metal repair mesh used by auto body men; I sandwiched this on the inside with glass mat with a lot of overlap, to anchor it to the sound structure from the inside, then glassed and filled from the outside. This way if I hit a dock piling the repair doesn't just collapse inward.
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