The areas where the birch plywood inserts are to be installed were sanded with 36 grit sandpaper.
7-ply BID cloth was cut for each of the four inserts. A 1″ overlap was used except for the insert where the step will be attached. For this insert a 1.5″ overlap was used.
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Workshop temperature was 24 deg C and humidity 38%. A batch of epoxy was mixed using 170g resin and 64g hardner.
The four sets of ply were wet out with the epoxy then a small batch of wet flox was mixed.
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The flox was applied to each of the plywood inserts and the inserts were positioned in place with flox filling any voids.
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Lastly, each of the inserts were covered with the 7-ply layup.
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