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Re:Easiest Volume Measure
By:Dave Houser
Date: 8/24/2001, 5:33 pm
In Response To: Re:Talk abt cheap (Jim)

I use cheap plastic cups. With a little setup you only ever have to mark one cup for each size batch.

Stack a cup inside a second cup. With a measuring cup, measure two parts of water and pour into the inner cup. With the cups still stacked, use a permanent marker and mark the water level on the outside of the outer cup. Add one more part of water into the inner cup and again mark the water level on the outside cup. Now get rid of all the water. The marked cup is used only as a "gage" and epoxy is never mixed directly in it. Just drop a new cup into the "gage" cup, pour in the resin into the inner cup up to the first mark then pour in hardener up to the second mark. Lift out the inner cup mix and use. Save the "gage" cup to measure future batches. I obviously using a 2:1 mix epoxy.

Make up several different sized "gage" cups for different batch sizes. I use cocktail sized cups for wetting out and condiment sized cups for gluing.

Messages In This Thread

Mixing epoxy, weight vs. volume
Al Gunther -- 8/23/2001, 12:20 am
over pouring
mike allen -- 8/28/2001, 8:27 pm
Re: over pouring
Al Gunther -- 8/29/2001, 12:10 am
some more balanced ideas
mike allen ---> -- 8/29/2001, 11:50 am
Epoxy mixing balance
Doug K -- 8/23/2001, 3:11 pm
Re: Epoxy mixing balance
Al Gunther -- 8/24/2001, 10:48 am
Re: Epoxy mixing balance
Doug K -- 8/24/2001, 1:48 pm
Re: Epoxy mixing balance
Al Gunther -- 8/24/2001, 4:10 pm
Re: Epoxy mixing balance
Don Beale -- 8/24/2001, 11:14 am
Re: Epoxy mixing balance
Al Gunther -- 8/24/2001, 12:34 pm
Small cheap plastic cups
Shawn Baker -- 8/24/2001, 12:40 pm
Re: Small cheap plastic cups
Ken Sutherland -- 8/24/2001, 5:47 pm
Re: Small cheap plastic cups
Jim -- 8/27/2001, 8:55 am
Re: Thank You!!!!
Shawn Baker -- 8/24/2001, 6:58 pm
Re:Talk abt cheap
Jim -- 8/24/2001, 12:56 pm
Re:Talk abt cheap
Matthew -- 8/24/2001, 10:07 pm
Re:Talk abt cheap
daren neufeld -- 8/24/2001, 8:28 pm
Re:Easiest Volume Measure
Dave Houser -- 8/24/2001, 5:33 pm
Mixing by weight (well, mass, but...)
Pete Roszyk -- 8/23/2001, 12:18 pm
Re: Mixing by weight (well, mass, but...)
Al Gunther -- 8/24/2001, 10:37 am
Easier method
Severne -- 8/23/2001, 11:17 am