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William R. Watt
 
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Default Polyester or Epoxy?

"Meindert Sprang" ) writes:

Pleeeze guys, can someone explain to me what is so difficult about givin the
resin pump and the hardener pump an equal number of pushes and stirring a
mixture firmly for two minutes????

If one cannot perform such a simple task, I think building a complete boat
is out of the question.......


I tried buying a small quantity of epoxy packaged in twin pumps and had
all sorts of difficulty with it. It never worked smoothly. It was messy. A
lot was wasted. For the small jobs I use epoxy for I only buy it in the
twin squeeze tubes now.

I find it a lot easier counting drops of polyester catalyst than trying to
measure out equal volumes of epoxy resin and hardener. Only one container
is used for measuring with polyester. Overall easier to work with in my
opinion.


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