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A useful question includes clear photographs, the materials involved, and what you have already tried.

Say what you are building and what stage it is at.
Name the actual products — the epoxy, the cloth, the plywood.
Say what you expected and what happened instead.
Say what you have already tried.
Photograph the problem close up, and again from further back.

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