Re: Help! Varnish over Epoxy
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Port-Na-Storm on
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Well Jason, this is the place to come to be told you're doing it wrong, great innit?
The entire Gudgeon Brothers and West System ethos of encapsulation thrown out with the bath water by Paulie.
Who can tell what has happened, the only solution is to give it a few days more and if it's still not hard gently sand back until you get to solid ground.
Those of us shivering here in the coldest April in sixty years will tell you that 16 C is the perfect temperature for varnish and paint. You could be right about the Humidity though.
Cheers
Graham.
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Subject: Re: Help! Varnish over Epoxy
Tacky varnish implies the epoxy had not fully cured.
Patches of the dreaded amine blush may still exist.
The varnish will slowly harden. It took two weeks in the first boat I built! Something was wrong.
My theory is that epoxy on brightwork is not a good idea, It's too easy to trap moisture and UV protection is not as good as solid paint
Others may have better solutions.
Paul