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PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:41 am 
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Any suggestions on what to use to clean all the sawdust and puddy dust off the plywood before fiberglassing? I thought I had read on here that denatured alcohol was the way to go, but wanted to check before I went that route. Thanks.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:54 am 
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I just used water. That raises the grain and closes tiny holes, then fine sand and dust off.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:41 pm 
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In my case I used several clean, dry rags... swapped them out after they got dusty on all surfaces. A little bit of dust gets soaked out in the amount of epoxy you end up putting on the surface.

The only time I 'washed' my surface was right before I put my primer on for paint.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:47 pm 
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I blew it off with an air hose, then vacuumed the surface.

I then wiped with denatured alcohol

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