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Re: Marking epoxy pump shafts
By:Rehd
Date: 8/3/2001, 9:25 pm
In Response To: Re: Marking epoxy pump shafts (Bill Sivori)

: I use one syringe for resin and one for hardener. Measure up one inch for
: resin and one half inch for hardener. Pump dirctly into the top of the
: syringe and insert the plunger. Squirt into a mixing cup and mix. As long
: as you don't mix up the two you don't even have to clean them until your
: boat is finished.
: Bill

I go one step further, and learned it from another Bill. I picked up two pic-nic ( mustard and ketsup ) bottles with the pointy squirt tips, and two child ( medicine ) syringes. They fit down into the tops of the plastic bottles perfectly and they are graduated by either tsp. or ml. I keep them upside down in the bottles all the time and when I need a fix..... mix for small glueing, I just turn them upside down and draw out the proper amount of resin and shoot it into a small glass jewelite ( glass candle holder ) and then do likewise with the hardener. Put the syringes back into the bottle when done and since you can only do one at a time, you generally always get them back into the proper bottle. ( so far ) Keep your filler handy and just mix and go. No muss, no fuss! I keep a roll of paper towels handy to wipe out the jewelite and stir stick to keep things neat and tidy. Trying to mix up a tsp. and a half of glue from anyones pumps is a lesson in futility. Of course, I still have the gallon jugs with pumps for the other stuff, but..... for a couple of small glue-ups, nothing works better than the mustard/ketsup and baby syringes. :)

Rehd ( from Bill Price )

Messages In This Thread

Welcome The Raven (long)
Frank Malinowski -- 8/3/2001, 1:46 am
Raven = Wisdom
!RUSS -- 8/4/2001, 8:25 am
funny thing happened at the barbers the other day
Pete Notman -- 8/3/2001, 4:29 pm
Mine has plenty of soul *NM*
Tony -- 8/8/2001, 2:13 pm
Re: Welcome The Raven
Rob Macks -- 8/3/2001, 1:09 pm
Digital scale for measure
Tony -- 8/8/2001, 2:12 pm
Re: Digital scale for measure
Pete Rudie -- 8/12/2001, 6:48 pm
Re: Digital scale for measure
Tony -- 8/15/2001, 1:22 pm
Re: Digital scale for measure
Pete Rudie -- 8/16/2001, 3:01 pm
Re: Marking epoxy pump shafts
Shawn Baker -- 8/3/2001, 6:27 pm
Re: Marking epoxy pump shafts
Bill Sivori -- 8/3/2001, 8:26 pm
Re: Marking epoxy pump shafts
Rehd -- 8/3/2001, 9:25 pm
Syringes *Pic*
Bill Price -- 8/4/2001, 3:24 am
Re: Congratulations and Safe paddling! *NM*
Shawn Baker -- 8/3/2001, 10:57 am
congratulations on completion . Enjoy! :) *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/3/2001, 2:49 am