Thursday, November 16, 2017

Excess Poxy


Where to put that excess poxy?


The stuff is too expensive to just throw away. 

I built a little dam in the bow of my kayaks and kept pouring/placing anyexcess in there to reinforce the fragile bow and to accommodate the bow loop.

Poxy with wood chips placed in kayak bow



Using excess poxy, I built up a glob in the stem of the sharpie, scull and Boat BW to accommodate the bow loop.

Poxy with wood chips placed in stem of sharpie


Completed glob in stem of sharpie. The bulge is where the bow
loop passes through



Wood chip-thickened poxy in bow of scull.
Looks like I recently poured a bit of excess neat poxy
on top




Start of the glob in the stem of the BW



The glob in the stem of the BW is growing

Read more about the infamous glob in the Boat BW at Glob Blog


Parfait Anyone?


While building the BW, after the glob was complete I started dumping the excess poxy in a wax cup. When the cup was full, I peeled the wax cup away. 




That cup is the only poxy thrown away during the building of the BW which consumed 32 gallons of poxy. Always having a next step ready for the excess poxy is the trick to avoiding waste.

Crackers Anyone?

Then I coated a couple of Saltine crackers with neat poxy and topped them with thickened poxy.

Poxy thickened with powdered silica and wood flour



Poxy thickened with powdered silica, wood flour and wood chips



For a while I refused to discard the used disposable foam and chip brushes and stacked them artistically (well, as artistically as I am capable). The residual poxy in the foam/bristles glued them all together into a glorious sculpture.

Disposable brush sculpture


If the poxy manufacturers would meet my demand for edible poxy, use of the excess poxy would not be an issue.



Bon Appetit







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Butt-Block for joining plywood while avoiding scarphing



Butt-Block for joining plywood while avoiding scarphing



Hydrotek BS-1088 Meranti 9-ply 1/2-inch (12mm) Plywood.