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polyester - epoxy bonding
Even on the hundred gallon jobs epoxy is used for high quality work. It
ain't cheap but it is the best. Ron |
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polyester - epoxy bonding
Ron Thornton ) writes: Even on the hundred gallon jobs epoxy is used for high quality work. It ain't cheap but it is the best. it is the strongest resin with the strongest adhesive bond (to most woods). whether it is the best in any given situation is debatable. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or its returned |
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polyester - epoxy bonding
Dan,
Back in the dark ages (almost 40 years ago) when epoxy was $40 an oz. (or so it seemed) one of the first rules I learned was "never put polyester on epoxy". Because of the cost back then almost no one used epoxy for boat building or repair. This caused us to use poly in adhesive applications that it was not very good at. I can vaguely remember roughing up a surface for poly with something like a 26 grit disk and then going back with a box knife and scoring the surface. You never laid glass on a surface that had been painted. No matter how much you sanded the poly just wouldn't stick and when I glassed new plywood the first coat was thinned with styrene 30 to 50% to ensure a decent bond. And of course you couldn't glass over planks because the tensile strength of poly was too low, the glass would break at the seams when the wood swelled. On top of all the above, it took a lot more poly to do the job. Life is so much easier since epoxy got relatively cheap. Ron |
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Walt wrote:
I have a polyester/ glass laminated part (gelcoat on one side) and I need to repair a hole in it. In the past, Ive sanded the glass/polyester, cleaned it up with acetone and then used west epoxy and "boat tape" glass. The polyester part is about 4 years old. This works reasonably well but the bond doesnt seem as good as the original polyster glass to glass laminations or if I were bonding epoxy to epoxy. Any suggestions on a really strong way to fix holes in polyester laminated structures or improvements on what Im already doing would be appreciated. Regards, wh Hello: In my probably distorted brain the 'view' is that polyester bonds well to itself and only so-so to other materials (lots of first and second hand experience of polyester resin to wood failures after about 8 to 10 years), but epoxy bonds well to lots of things, including polyester. paul www.epoxyproducts.com/marine.html -- ================================================== ===== PAUL OMAN ----- Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc. Frog Pond Hollow - 48 Wildwood Dr - Pittsfield NH 03263 603-435-7199 FAX 603-435-7182 VISA/MC/Discover http://www.epoxyproducts.com Boating site: http://www.epoxyproducts.com/marine.html ================================================== ====== |
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I believe epoxy bonds to cured poly better than poly to cured poly, but
it's been so long I'm not sure. Any chemists out there? Ron |
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Thanks Rubbish,
I guess that's why we went to such extreme to make the surface rough for poly when it was the only reasonably priced resin. Trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear I suppose. Ron |
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polyester - epoxy bonding
Al,
I don't think you will know if it is a success for some time. What you have done is made an educated guess that it will bond good enough for something on display. Nothing wrong with that and it sound like you would not make the same decision if the use was marine Ron. |
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polyester - epoxy bonding
I don't think you will know if it is a success for some time. What you
have done is made an educated guess that it will bond good enough for something on display. the oars were left out in a rainstorm and were bounced around on a trailer (the roads are awful around here) before I gave them back to the boss who pronounced them perfect and upped what he was paying per oar by 50p. When these things are painted and nailed to a pub wall the bond is going to be more than enough. Nothing wrong with that and it sound like you would not make the same decision if the use was marine If I had some very cheap oars that I didn't mind bashing around I would, but the oars I repaired could not be used for their designed purpose simply because the filler is soft (designed for easy sanding) and it would be ground off far too easily. No, I wouldn't trust a polyester-over-epoxy bond in anything that had to take any kind of abuse. Something that is static with a reasonable key? yes. After seeing the mess that my dad's boat is becoming I have strong reservations about using polyester in a marine environment period. It looks as if water has been able to permeate the polyester/glass covered wood, but it has been held there whereas in the surrounding varnish only wood, the water seems to have been able to escape appearing to do less damage. I need to tear into much of the keel and hog to shift rot and the wood I remove is going to be replaced by epoxy, but I think that boat is well and truly on it's way out after only perhaps 20 years, mostly through poor maintenance (if I'd known 5 years ago what I know now it'd be a much different story... but I'd also have been 13). Polyester did the job when there was nothing better, and in the lamination of large amount of fibreglass may still be the material of choice, but better materials do exist for this application now, and at reasonable prices. Al |
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polyester - epoxy bonding
Well there you go. Another unsolicited testimonial.
Epoxy rules. Ron |
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