Bruce wrote:


A trick I learned from a guy who does it every day is to grind a
radius on one corner of a putty-knife. He had several in different
sizes and radius. With the metal blade he could pretty well scrape all
the excess filler off the panels leaving only the fillet and then,
before the filler had hardened he taped over the fillet and rolled it
out. It takes a bit of practice but cuts out all the sanding of the
fillets.




Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)


Bruce, you've been most helpful, so I'll add a tip of my own.

I've learned to mask off the area to be taped.

Make the area a touch larger than the width of the glass tape to be
used. You don't want the glass laying over teh mask!
Duct tape works fine as epoxy will not stick to it.

Then lay in the filet and glass tape and epoxy.

This makes for very neat seams with little clean up required.

Well, it works for me, anyway!

Richard
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