Re: ATM - West System Epoxy and wood

[Roderick Darroch Elliott <rellio@po-box.mcgill.ca>]

Mel Bartels wrote:

>
>So, do you put the varnish right over the West epoxy?  Can you spray
>paint right over the West epoxy?


        Epoxy generally doesn't make a very good substratum for most
paints; again, most marine supply stores will sell an appropriate primer.
If you don't want to prime, I'd suggest at least roughing up the epoxy with
a medium-fine grit sandpaper.

        And I suppose at this point I should introduce myself; I'm a former
marine supply and hardware store clerk, who's on the list in order to fully
and thoroughly educate himself about optics before buying a scope, which I
plan to do sometime in the next couple of years, after I finish paying off
my student loans.

R.D. Elliott <rellio@po-box.mcgill.ca>