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Re: Epoxy: Epoxy rollers
By:Jim Ham
Date: 11/9/2010, 8:56 pm
In Response To: Re: Epoxy: Epoxy rollers (Bill Hamm)

: All resins contain solvents. The rollers to avoid are those with
: the plain cardboard tubes, usually the cheapest rollers you can
: find have these. None of the rollers that work well are real
: inexpensive, and the ones you want usually will have advertising
: on them stating that they have a phenolic coated core. (probably
: won't say that exactly that way) Often this is a trial and error
: thing, find one and try it. Actually for most first time
: builders I'd recommend just using chip brushes and buy a box of
: them, around 2" wide. I go thru boxes and boxes of them and
: buy as many as I can find on sale, but I do alot of epoxy work
: so they'll always get used, eventually.

: Bill H.
The problem with chip brushes is that they shed bristles. How do you deal with this? It's kind of OK to have an occasional bristle in a multi-layer layup, but for finish work it's tough.

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Palle Dam -- 11/4/2010, 11:43 am
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Palle Dam -- 11/8/2010, 9:39 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/9/2010, 9:32 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/9/2010, 8:57 am
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Jim Ham -- 11/9/2010, 8:56 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/9/2010, 9:38 pm
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Ian Johnson -- 11/10/2010, 1:17 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/6/2010, 9:23 am
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Jim Ham -- 11/4/2010, 11:39 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/4/2010, 4:36 pm
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vk1nf -- 11/4/2010, 3:21 pm
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Pedro Almeida -- 11/6/2010, 4:06 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/7/2010, 12:37 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/4/2010, 2:27 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 11/4/2010, 3:11 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/4/2010, 3:20 pm
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Rod Tait -- 11/4/2010, 12:56 pm