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Originally Posted by halekai36
Having done a fair number of core repairs and re-done previous owners "drill & fills" I can assure you of a few things:
#1 Working from the TOP is the ONLY way to avoid voids!! It's called gravity!
#2 The water took years and years to penetrate and rot the deck you will NOT dry it sufficiently in even a month or more. you need NEW balsa!
#3 These "Ginsu" equivalent "penetrating epoxies" are BS!! Period and end of story! .... Epoxy begins to kick in as little as an hour or two at which point it begins to thicken and or NOT penetrate!! .
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Having done a fair number of wooden boats repairs I would say that penetrating epoxy ARE NOT BS. They will not set three to 7 days, they have very good penetrating properties, they are great product.
And they are not designed to fix large structural panels, as balsa core.
First of all - roted wood mast be dry before applying penetrating epoxy. It is not possible to dry out wet roted core, period.