This may be a bit simple for the advanced users on this site, but here goes. I do some repairs of fishing poles for my club using wet lay up. Basically I use a fine grade 90 gsm woven cloth wrapped around the broken pole wetted with epoxy. The cloth is then wrapped with a heat shrink release tape and heated with a hot air gun to achieve shrinkage and compression. However during curing resin always seeps out at either end giving a rough uneven edge. Without standing around for 4-5 hours wiping the excess away or copious sanding is there any other way to get a clean edge?
Put some releasing tape around the repair area.
wipe the excess resin away with aceton before it cures. And put release agent on the area where the shrink tape ends, so you can get rid of the little resin in the edge of the shrink tape after curing quite easy.
I would be using flash tape.
Wrap in peel ply prior to wrapping with shrink tape.
It will become rough then and not so nice and smooth.
Thanks for the replies, like the Flash tape idea, will try that.