styrene or acetone and nautic marine

[coolair]

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

[CaptPatrick]

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...

[MarkS]

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

[Raybo Marine NY]

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

[coolair]

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??