Keep in mind that this is a first attempt at this kind of repair for me but here's what I did.
Got the MAS epoxies repair kit. It came with a bottle of Flag Resin, Medium Hardener, some mixing cups, some mixing sticks. I also got some microballoons(dark brown powder used for thickening, I think also refered to as a filler) The micro balloons don't come in the kit.
For my small repair, the kit was kinda neat because the amounts or everything are fairly small and this stuff is NOT cheap.
Where the small chip was, I put a decent amount of pressure in the area just immediately around it with the back of a screwdriver. The areas to each side of the chip crumbled away in the gelcoat, everything else seemed pretty solid.
I used simple green and water to clean the site. (MAS says not to use Acetone). I think you can use alcohol as well.
Then I used some course sandpaper to sand/grind the area out a bit.
For my small repair I put 1/2 oz of resin into the mixing cup. Then I added 1/4 oz hardner to the same cup (supposed to be 2 parts resin to 1 part hardner). This gave me more than enough to cover the site.
As I was mixing these together I began to add the microballoons (thickening agent) You are supposed to stir the mixture for at least 2 minutes. I ended up adding quite a bit of thickner. I THINK what you are looking for is a peanut butter type consistency. What I ended up with was a warm peanut butter consistency (just slightly runny)......so maybe I should of added more.
Anyway I used the stick and just spread the paste into the site and cleaned up around it.
I'll let you know in a couple days how it turned out. Hopefully just to fair it into shape with some sandpaper and then reapply some gelcoat over it. That's the plan anyway......we'll see what happens
I've used the Evercoat gelcoat repair kits, but not that particular one.
(any recommendations???)
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