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Subject: Europa-List: Scuff sanding
From: Graham Singleton <graham@gflight.f9.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:21:19

>My concern is my uncertainty as to what constitutes adequate "scuff sanding"
>in order to achieve required bonding.
>  I note that because of the weave of the glass on the skins, a pattern 
> developes with the
>high areas becoming whitish matte and the low areas remaining darker and
>somewhat glossy; my fear is that if I continue sanding so that the area
>becomes 100% "whitish matte", I will remove too much material and degrade
>the strength value of the existing glass skins.
>Fred
>A194


Fred
what I do is scuff with 60X first then go for a matt surface between the 
fibers with Scotchbrite.
US Navy recommended this at a forum during Sun n Fun
Graham




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