Adhesive with a long open time

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Allegedly Robert Manry was one of the first boating enthusiasts to prove the usefulness of epoxy for wooden boat building and repair. I have posted about Tinkerbelle several times. It is an interesting story.

https://www.robertmanryproject.com/tinkerbelle/

My first experience with epoxy was helping my brother create air tight waterproof foot lockers for storing and transporting 54 inch commercial wall covering. His pasting machine was permanently set up in his shop and he would show up at a paperhanging job with the wallpaper all pasted and ready to go, stored in his custom airtight foot lockers. His main interest was cars and his first attempts to waterproof his wallpaper boxes were with polyester resin and fiberglass. Polyester did not work. West System solved the problem. Back then you had to call the Gougeon Brothers on the land line to get advice and order resins. With the leftover epoxy from the waterproof footlocker project I built a boat.

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