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For Good Adhesion by Brian Knight—GBI Technical Advisor Above: Sanding the bonding surface is important to good adhesion with epoxy. “Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” the old expression goes. This is certainly true when preparing a surface for an epoxy application. The surface has to be clean to begin with or there may be adhesion […]
by Brian Knight—GBI Technical Advisor Above: Scheherazade, the 154’7″ yacht that required testing of large bonded-in fasteners. Scheherazade is a 154′ 7″ Bruce King-designed ketch under construction at Hodgdon Yachts, in East Boothbay, Maine. Scheherazade is 60% larger than Antonisa, the last Bruce King/Hodgdon Yacht collaboration, and is the largest sailboat under construction in the […]
With WEST SYSTEM Epoxy by Brian Knight—GBI Technical Advisor Above: The chair repair. Masking tape protects the seat, and the arm is clamped in position while the epoxy cures. My cousin, Gary, brought me the broken chair shown in the picture below. The spindle and arm assembly was broken off where it attached to the […]
Installing a floating Shelf by Brian Knight—GBI Technical Advisor Above: The completed floating shelf, installed in Brian’s sister’s home and decorated with her colorful collection of birdhouses. It was only after I said, “No problem” to my sister’s request for a shelf installed on the wall of her new house that she dropped the other […]
by Brian Knight—GBI Technical Advisor I was in my basement applying some 2×4 furring to a concrete block wall in preparation for insulating and hanging drywall when I noticed a crack in a horizontal mortar joint about halfway between the floor and the ceiling running nearly the length of the wall. This crack was an […]
