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I have two questions. when thinning polyester resin can you use acetone or should you use styrene? The glass supplier by me said 50/50 mix of acetone/resin to coat wood first. I am going to redo my bench seat. Just got all my hinges and brackets from pompanette. bro said acetone too, just not as heavy a mix

also, is nautic marine welding still around?
thanks
matt

Styrene is the preferred method to thin polyester resin, but acetone will work... 20% would be the highest volume of thinner that I'd use. Any penetrating resin should be followed up with several coats of un-thinned resin to fully seal a porous substraight.

I would use epoxy rather than polyester for sealing wood. Epoxy can be thinned at the same 20% level using denatured alcohol. Again, a follow up of un-thinned resin should be applied.

Doug's Nautic Marine is no longer available. Doug shifted emphasis and contracted out to a large volume client...

If you had a question I am sure Doug would be more than happy to answer though. He really is a good Shi......... 954-563-9932

just a FYI- Pomp sells the backing and cushions, they now sell it in wood free version. You may want to explore that if you also require cushions

Thanks,
Ya, from reading the post pomp probably wants close to a grand.
I got my hinges and braces, and am going to build it my self, i am itching to try some fiberglass work haha.
Gues at nautic gave me number of a guy named george, georges welding. any experiance??