Hi all, I suspect everyone here already knows this but I thought I'd throw it out there just in case.
When doing glass layups you MUST propertly prepare the surface onto which the glass is being bonded. Without going into the details of what "prepare" means, please know that at a minimum it includes REMOVING the peel ply from the previous layup and/or paint/primer/gel coat. Yeah, I know. Silly right!?!? Well, at least one guy (the guy that built and/or worked on my KR2S project) did not know about this. There was more peel ply INSIDE the rudder layups that you would believe (it is down to a couple of sticks now...) and the turtledeck glass peeled off like the skin coming off a banana (due to the paint/primer/gel coat). I now better understand those folks that won't ride in a homebuilt.... :-( Jon Finley N314JF - Q2 - Subaru EJ-22 [http://www.finleyweb.net/Q2Subaru.aspx] http://www.finleyweb.net/Q2Subaru.aspx
