The Workshop News

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What is Amine Blush?
Modern epoxies v tradional older style blushing or waxing epoxy Firstly we need to identify what is blushing or waxing. Blushing /waxing is a result of a chemical reaction within... Read more...
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Junior our 1950’s Yachting Monthly dinghy
We have now removed 90% of the old varnish from the fore deck, side decks and stern area. This has had a treatment of MAS epoxies deep penetration epoxy plus... Read more...
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The Trouble with Junior Cont.
We are still working on the very long and time consuming job of taking out all the old screws from our 1954 designed Yachting monthly junior. But in the mean... Read more...
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The Trouble with Junior - Part 2
Junior is a 1954 designed yachting monthly junior by Kenneth Gibbs On our Last notice we had stitched the boat with nylon nails to prevent any loss of shape. The... Read more...
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The Restoration of Junior - Part 1
We are always having interesting and unusual projects turn up that need that certain black bear magic. Recently we were asked to save a 1954 designed yachting Monthly junior designed... Read more...
Using Epoxy to repair doors and Brickwork
Our workshop has seen better times as far as the brick work is concerned. It has suffered with wind and water damage that has left the walls quiet weak and difficult to attach things to. So now we are looking at strengthening and stopping the faces of the bricks being blown off. On the last dry day we had I made a start using MAS low viscosity resin and because it was February I used fast hardener, firstly I marked out the area I need to fix the new door... Read more...
Drilling and Tapping
We are at that point were we are having to look at making up the ballast keel (box). The box is going to be made of 22mm mild steel with stringers that are out of 60mm plate which is to be drilled and tapped with 22mm holes. when the box is made up we will fill the voids with cement and lead. The box will be held to the boat with 18 mild steel studs wrapped in ptfe tape and lithium based water pump grease Total ballast weight will be... Read more...
Tools in the workshop sanding
I have often been asked about what tools I use in the work shopped why I picked that make So today I will be looking at the sanders and grinders we use, ones we no longer use and ones I wish we could still get. We have 3 main types sheet sanders either 1/3 or 1/2 sheet sanders random orbit 150mm sanders and belt sanders Now I am all for using cheap tools that you can throw away when working with epoxy, but I have learnt that with sanders you... Read more...
Mast Repair
Some of you may be aware that our main mast for the boat was hit by a mad woman driving a Toyota fortunately no one was injured but the Toyota was severely damaged and we had some marking on the mast. now our problem was that the mast had been undercoated so we could not see what damage had been done, so all the paint around the damage points was removed and we found that some of the glass had been damaged so a decision was made to lay another... Read more...
Postage and Packaging
I have received a lot of negative feedback on our postage costs. Here are the simple reasons for this cost update, as a company we have swallowed postage costs only charging a fraction of the actual costs, however, because we send chemicals we have to declare them and they come in the HAZCHEM labeling format so many carriers will not take them. As many of you know, many companies offer free shipping, the truth is there is no such thing and the cost is built into the pricing. if we... Read more...