While a moisture meter newbie might gain some useful information more on that in a minute using one to accurately assess the state of a hull requires deep experience.
Using a moisture meter on solid fiberglass laminate.
Once again the meter can determine if moisture is present in a solid laminate even if all looks well to the naked eye.
The meter won t tell us what part is wet the skin the core or both.
However it is not perfect and there are drawbacks.
176 does old gel coat absorb high amounts of water.
Virtually every high performance racing sail or powerboat is cored.
Fiberglass is a good material to use in boats as it has many good attributes.
So better to hire an experienced professional surveyor or perhaps a boat yard technician see last article to do the work for us.
176 are meters affected by humidity.
However it should be.
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After using a moisture meter on over 1 000 surveys i have yet to see a recently hauled boat that indicated anything less than high 7 on a scale of 1 10 on surfaces below the waterline.
Where osmosis repair is concerned the moisture meter will enable a fiberglass specialist to determine how.
This is a very important part of any moisture meter and if you don t have that scale it does not matter whether the meter tells you it is 100 or 10 because you don t know what those numbers translate to in fiberglass.
Part of the problem in answering this question comes from the fact that we cannot determine whether we are reading moisture behind the laminate versus within the laminate.
These readings have been taken with a.
176 do meters read fluids other than water.
A surveyor can identify high moisture in the core or laminate using a moisture meter.
Using moisture meters 173 what does a meter really detect.
The mass production of fiberglass.
We tend to believe that solid fiberglass is stronger and less likely to suffer damage from water saturation and the latter is true.
This is the this is the fundamental problem with trying to meter hulls for wet cores.
Lower levels of moisture are common and tapping of the area can identify if there is a problem that needs to be repaired.
