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.
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| 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.
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| Poxy with wood chips placed in stem of sharpie |
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| Completed glob in stem of sharpie. The bulge is where the bow loop passes through |
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| Wood chip-thickened poxy in bow of scull. Looks like I recently poured a bit of excess neat poxy on top |
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| Start of the glob in the stem of the BW |
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| 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.
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| Poxy thickened with powdered silica and wood flour |
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| 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.
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| 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
