So my Daysailer knock-off has these things I call "footboards" on the frontside of each bench seat that protect water from getting into the foam under the benches. I'm replacing the boards (among other things) and will need to re-fillet them on the top to the bench and on the bottom to the floor.
All well and good, order a quick pint of fillet from System Three. Until I looked at their coverage chart and did the math...8' length, times two per board, times two for two boards = 32' linear feet, and the coverage for their EZ Fillet is *at most* 4 oz. per foot...so at least a gallon. Which runs $200. To glue some damn boards back on...
Watched some videos, however, and from what I gather that EZ Fillet stuff is vastly overpriced, since filleting mixture is mostly wood flour (and maybe a bit of silica,) and wood flour is way cheaper than epoxy. I can't, however, find a reliable recipe (and I suspect System Three tech support won't help me, though I have sent them a note,) so I figured I'd ask here.
The best I could find was 2 - 2.5x the amount of filler material per epoxy, but I don't know if that's by volume or weight. I assume volume. In my Google blitzkreig I also think I saw something about "thicken first with silica to mayonaise consistency, then add wood filler to reach peanut butter consistency."
If anybody knows a cheaper solution than S3's $200 (West, DIY, etc.) let me know.