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Epoxy: Heat for glassing
By:Palle Dam
Date: 12/1/2010, 8:32 am

I am building in an uninsulated garage and will have to heat it to do the glassing. I plan to build some kind of tent around the kayak to minimize the space to be heated.
But heating is expensive. How long is it necessary to heat? How much should the epoxy cure before I can turn of the heat? I'm not looking for a number of hours (Because it varies between the different epoxy-brands), more like at which cure-stage I can stop heating.
The temperature is around freezing at the moment. Without the tent (which I haven't made yet) I could only get the temperature up to around 14 C (~57 F) with a 2000 W electric heater and a 4200 W propane heater. But that is too expensive for long term use.
Btw. does anyone have a description or pictures of a tent-frame that is easy to make?

Palle Dam
Denmark

Messages In This Thread

Epoxy: Heat for glassing
Palle Dam -- 12/1/2010, 8:32 am
Re: Epoxy: Heat for glassing
Don Flowers -- 12/3/2010, 2:02 pm
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Palle Dam -- 12/4/2010, 1:18 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/6/2010, 12:19 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/6/2010, 12:16 am
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Al Edie -- 12/5/2010, 6:36 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 12/2/2010, 1:31 pm
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Mike Savage -- 12/1/2010, 2:16 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/1/2010, 6:06 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/1/2010, 1:43 pm
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Ric -- 12/1/2010, 11:48 am