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Date:  1-24-2018
Number of Hours:  2.00
Manual Reference:  ch 21
Brief Description:  What. Was. I. Thinking....

I must have been at the end of a large long day of layups or was completely high on epoxy fumes when I glassed these blisters...OH MY GOSH. I cannot explain why I would EVER leave a layup to cure so dry.
First thing I did this morning was Fein Tool the sump blisters off in order to re-flox and epoxy wipe them to ensure a seal from the inside. What I saw when I opened them up was unreal. WHITE glass cloth, BARELY wet enough to hold it's shape. I must have been sick of working upside down or something rediculous that day, because I wouldn't be caught dead with layups like that now days. I sanded down all the surfaces with 80 grit, then a scotchbrite pad and prepared a flox corner along the inside perimeter of the blisters. I then wiped pure EZ-Poxy 87 on the entire inside surface as wet as I could. 7 hours later while it was still very tacky, I carefully brushed on another THICK coat of epoxy all over for a dual layer of protection.
I now went from white and dry to a dark molasses bar top shine. After the repair is made, I will also be post curing the new layups carefully to ensure the most resistence to ethanol. And on that note, the great news was that 3 months straight of 93 octane pump gas had no observable affects on the ez poxy layups. Now to just stop the leaks and I'd be ecstatic. :)
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White, dry layups

White, dry layups

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Prepped for coating

Prepped for coating

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flox corners and 2 layers of pure epoxy all over

flox corners and 2 layers of pure epoxy all over

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