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Re: Strip: Questions
By:Randy Echtinaw
Date: 12/21/2011, 9:51 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Questions (Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K)

: Looks like your resin was setting up as you rolled it on.

: I've been surprised by this "sticky resin" problem one
: time or two, when I just used
: some resin out of the mixing cup to touch up something else, lost
: track of time,
: and then realized I was supposed to be pouring this batch in the
: roller pan and noticed
: it was very sticky.

: This is why I never mix more than a 6 oz. batch. And don't pick up
: the phone, or get distracted.

: How large a batch of resin and hardener did you mix up and how long
: did it sit in the
: mixing cup before you poured it in the roller pan?

Small batches, 4 pumps each epoxy and hardener - mix approx. 90 seconds and immediately into the flat pan.

: I use System Three regular resin most of the time. I'm just trying
: some MAS and
: the set-up times are dramatically different. Six to eight hours to
: tack free at 85˚
: for slow hardener with System Three. Two to Three hours to tack
: free with slow
: hardener and MAS at 80˚.

: I don't know what kind of time you could expect with West's slow
: hardener at 80˚.

: If you heated your shop to 80˚ for six hours you didn't need to
: heat anything else,
: if your resin and boat are in the shop.

: If you had a large batch of resin that was heated over 80˚ poured
: in a pan heated over 80˚
: this could account for your faster than expected set-up of
: "sticky" resin.

Everything was 80 degrees. I have wood fired outdoor boiler that heats the shop. I set everything on the copper pipes and it stays at a constant 80 degrees.

: Your resin should be watery thin for a good wet-out.

The wet out seems OK, no visible cloth, no grey areas, just textured. I don't know what to do differently. I won't be using epoxy again until after Christmas so I have until then to think about it.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas, get all the kayak materials you need and don't have to return anything :))

Randy

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Questions
Randy Echtinaw -- 12/21/2011, 11:05 am
Re: Strip: Questions
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 12/21/2011, 3:23 pm
Re: Strip: Questions
Randy Echtinaw -- 12/21/2011, 9:51 pm
Re: Strip: Questions
Bill Hamm -- 12/22/2011, 1:47 am
Re: Strip: Questions
Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 12/21/2011, 5:17 pm
Re: Strip: Questions
Bill Hamm -- 12/22/2011, 1:48 am
Re: Strip: Questions
Randy Echtinaw -- 12/22/2011, 11:27 am
Re: Strip: Questions
Bryan Kapteyn -- 12/22/2011, 3:43 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/22/2011, 4:10 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/22/2011, 4:11 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/22/2011, 4:12 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/22/2011, 4:17 pm