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Re-glueing basement door skins
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I want to tell you about my bay door skin reglue project this week. First, several of the doors were loose enough that I could remove the skin from the frame. I scraped off the old adhesive tape with a wall paper scraper and caulk remover (goof off). It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

I used G Flex from West Marine. I didn't use clamps. What I did do was lay the frame on a flat table, I put on the epoxy, and then the skin. I simply filled five gallon buckets with water to get the skin to lay flat against the frame.

What I really want to tell you about is my goofy mistake, with hopefully a great long term outcome.

On one of the doors, I only noticed a small gap at one corner, so I filled a syringe with the G flex and squirted it into the gap. Applied some pressure and let it cure overnight. A couple of days later, the other corner of the same door has now pulled loose. I suppose tightening one corner put pressure on the other. Well OK I thought, don't patch it again. Pull the skin off, and do it right. I could get all the tape loose but I COULD NOT get the three inches where I used the epoxy loose. Not hammers, not wedges, not exorcisms would get that corner to budge.

I hope I don't ever have to replace the skins where I used the epoxy.

I have played with some good stuff over the years, I was in the carbon fiber business for 7 years and had access to the really high end resins. But that G flex is the toughest epoxy that I have ever used.

Richard and Rhonda Entrekin
99 Newell, 512
Maverick Hybrid Toad
Inverness, FL (when we're home Cool )
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Re-glueing basement door skins - by folivier - 01-22-2014, 11:44 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Fulltiming - 01-22-2014, 02:02 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by folivier - 01-22-2014, 02:09 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Fulltiming - 01-22-2014, 05:20 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by RussWhite - 01-24-2014, 01:37 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by folivier - 01-24-2014, 02:12 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by RussWhite - 01-24-2014, 02:28 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Chester Stone - 01-24-2014, 03:23 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by RussWhite - 01-24-2014, 04:18 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by bikestuff - 08-10-2014, 07:35 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Retro - 08-10-2014, 08:36 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Richard - 08-11-2014, 04:06 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by RussWhite - 08-11-2014, 04:12 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by HoosierDaddy - 08-11-2014, 05:48 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Richard - 08-21-2014, 01:19 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by 77newell - 08-21-2014, 02:46 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by bikestuff - 08-29-2014, 06:05 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Richard - 08-30-2014, 03:16 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by bikestuff - 08-30-2014, 06:17 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by folivier - 08-30-2014, 10:44 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by bikestuff - 08-30-2014, 11:39 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by AlanJohnson - 06-12-2021, 09:38 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Richard - 06-12-2021, 11:55 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by AlanJohnson - 06-12-2021, 01:57 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Richard - 06-13-2021, 04:08 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Winegrower - 06-13-2021, 09:00 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by folivier - 06-14-2021, 07:06 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Tony Van Helden - 06-14-2021, 10:08 AM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by BusNit - 01-31-2022, 08:08 PM
RE: Re-glueing basement door skins - by Richard - 02-01-2022, 05:44 AM

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