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epoxy thickener
On Thu, 27 May 2004 14:54:05 UTC, (Parallax)
wrote: [mega cut] "mindspring" in your e-mail makes sense.... :-) -- steen - menzi.dk Ready for OpenOffice? --- |
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epoxy thickener
In my view, Scotty, the issue isn't the six bucks for a bag of commercial
thickener. I'm still trying to figure out how the guy is going to wash the black carbon off the tiny beads used in toner. Let's see, open washing machine, pour in five pounds of toner, one cup of detergent, set wash cycle to "delicate", run the drain through a super-fine filter to catch the cleaned beads, and buy five dozen long-stemmed roses to try to placate wife when she sees the inside of the washing machine has turned black. "Backyard Renegade" wrote in message om... (William R. Watt) wrote in message ... Brian Nystrom ) writes: Is this supposed to be a joke? If not, remind me never to board a vessel that you've built. talc and flour are used as thickenres in resins. the problem with scented talc is the smell released when sanding. urea formaldehyde adehsive (plastic resin marine glue) is sold as a powder which includes either wheat or rye flour as a thickener. Every time I see these threads I just puke. Geeze guys, 6 bucks for a bag of aerosil enough to do three to four small boats, this thread is just rediculous...Scotty |
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epoxy thickener
Stephen Baker ) writes:
Brian Nystrom writes: Maybe the next time I need to do some fillets, I'll thicken the epoxy with Metamucil. It's got plenty of fiber and it should help to produce fillets that are quite "smooth" and "regular". ;-) That would only work if the fillet were to be extruded. ;- I'm not familiar with Metamucil but suspect it may be one of those fine clay (kaolin) powders suspended in a flavoured water solution. If you boil off the water all you have left is clay which, like powdered talc, which would be less expensive to buy dry in the first place. And of course, water mustn't be mixed with epoxy or polyester resins. I'm not suggesting insecticide powder as a thickner for fillets. Some kind of additive for sheathing might be interesting but expoxy itself is supposed to be impermiable to air and water so it's probably a waste of money. If the expoxy wears off to the point air and water get at the wood the insecticide is gone then too. From what I've read I would use fibre for reinforicing for structural strength and powder to simply make the resin go further, or in the case of silica, for added abraision resistance. Both fibre and powder would make the resin more viscous if that's needed while curing. I've also read that that the need to sand the cured resin influences which powder to use. I usually collect wood "flour" for free (sandable fibre) and use that. I've used powdered talc with epoxy for non-marine repairs around the house. Laser toner sounds interesting except for the graphite coating. I don't know what graphite does to resins. Carbon fibre is sought after for combining with resins, but graphite? Imagine trying to clean up after sanding. Ugh. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 it's returned |
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Re epoxy thickener
Maybe the next time I need to do some fillets, I'll thicken the epoxy with Metamucil. It's got plenty of fiber and it should help to produce fillets that are quite "smooth" and "regular". ;-) Offhand, that sounds like kind of a ****ty idea...... Anyway,sort of related to the topic,if I have to make a fillet of some kind here's how I do it.I stick the corner of a sandwich bag a few inches down into a regular soup can and drape the rest of the bag down the outside of the can.I mix up some fillet stuff and put it in the bag with a putty knife,twist the bag closed,snip off the corner and end up with a disposable bag of fillet material that looks like and is used exactly like the pastry apparatus that pastry people use to write on pastries with,the name of which I cannot think of at the moment,but you know what I mean,hopefully.To finish the fillet I choose an appropriate sized socket from my toolbox,clean of the grease,wax it up and drag it along at a low angle, ending up with a fillet flanked by two lines of excess material, which I let set-up enough to not be all gooey and to be easily taken off with a putty knife. (Unrelated to the topic, Google won't let me post this as " epoxy thickener"unless it is a followup,which it is.If I remove the ":",everything's tits according to Mr. Google, but it starts a new thread). |
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William R. Watt wrote:
Laser toner sounds interesting except for the graphite coating. I don't know what graphite does to resins. Carbon fibre is sought after for combining with resins, but graphite? Imagine trying to clean up after sanding. Ugh. My understanding is that toner is not coated. Toner is micro fine, ground, black plastic that is melted and fused to the paper in the printer/copier. It's only real use with epoxy is as a tint. Graphite is sometimes used an a epoxy additive to produce a slippery, abrasion resistant surface on hulls. |
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Brian Nystrom ) writes:
My understanding is that toner is not coated. that was my original assumption but in an earlier article in this thread we were informed it is coated with graphite. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 it's returned |
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William R. Watt wrote: Brian Nystrom ) writes: My understanding is that toner is not coated. that was my original assumption but in an earlier article in this thread we were informed it is coated with graphite. The pigment used in black toner is carbon black, not graphite. Here's a link to an MSDS with the details: http://www.biggestbook.com/MSDSFiles/bbmsds00739.pdf |
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epoxy thickener
Jim Conlin wrote:
Watch this space. It's gonna happen. One of these days, someone will nominate garden dirt as an epoxy filler. Hey, it's good for standing on and it's cheap. Makes good non-skid too. DSK |
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