Maybe he doesn't know that you can do a better job of cleaning up
special/expensive tools and such with vinegar?

Matt Colie

Lew Hodgett wrote:

"Tom" writes:

So what did you clean up with - water? no MEK, no acetone?


Soap & water for personal clean up.

Don't waste time trying to clean tools such as mixing containers, paint
rollers, brushes, etc

Don't even have acetone or MEK in the boat yard.

Once again, you have assumed the position.

"Matt Colie" writes:

Maybe he doesn't know that you can do a better job of cleaning up
special/expensive tools and such with vinegar?

Just curious, what do you consider special/expensive tools for working with
epoxy?


--
Lew

S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland)
Visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for Pictures

"Matt Colie" writes:

Maybe he doesn't know that you can do a better job of cleaning up
special/expensive tools and such with vinegar?

Just curious, what do you consider special/expensive tools for working with
epoxy?


--
Lew

S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland)
Visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for Pictures

Lew,
There are really only two things that fit the catagory.
That would be rollers and fillet shapers.
As most of my rollers that get wet - the straight kind are used for bag
jobs only - are the radius kind, they are relatively expensive at
8-10$us. I can clean them in a couple of minutes.
The fillet shapers that I use most, I cut to radius from 1/8UHMW sheet
then either radius or thin the edge by hand for the specific
application. The harder edge for structural fillets of highly filled
mix and the more flexible for finish fillets with soft filler. As both
of these take 10-15 miutes to make (finish 4 corners of a 4 or 6 inch
square), and clean almost instantly. I figure it is worth doing -
partiularly as the soft fill is often too flexible to come off the
radius tool easily.
Matt


Lew Hodgett wrote:
"Matt Colie" writes:


Maybe he doesn't know that you can do a better job of cleaning up
special/expensive tools and such with vinegar?


Just curious, what do you consider special/expensive tools for working with
epoxy?

Lew,
There are really only two things that fit the catagory.
That would be rollers and fillet shapers.
As most of my rollers that get wet - the straight kind are used for bag
jobs only - are the radius kind, they are relatively expensive at
8-10$us. I can clean them in a couple of minutes.
The fillet shapers that I use most, I cut to radius from 1/8UHMW sheet
then either radius or thin the edge by hand for the specific
application. The harder edge for structural fillets of highly filled
mix and the more flexible for finish fillets with soft filler. As both
of these take 10-15 miutes to make (finish 4 corners of a 4 or 6 inch
square), and clean almost instantly. I figure it is worth doing -
partiularly as the soft fill is often too flexible to come off the
radius tool easily.
Matt


Lew Hodgett wrote:
"Matt Colie" writes:


Maybe he doesn't know that you can do a better job of cleaning up
special/expensive tools and such with vinegar?


Just curious, what do you consider special/expensive tools for working with
epoxy?

"Matt Colie" writes:

Lew,
There are really only two things that fit the catagory.
That would be rollers and fillet shapers.
snip

Understand.

Personally, have not found a use for rollers, am able to remove excess resin
with just a squeegee which is strictly a throw away item.

Haven't had to be very fussy about fillets yet, paint mixing sticks seem to
get the job done.


--
Lew

S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland)
Visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for Pictures

"Matt Colie" writes:

Lew,
There are really only two things that fit the catagory.
That would be rollers and fillet shapers.
snip

Understand.

Personally, have not found a use for rollers, am able to remove excess resin
with just a squeegee which is strictly a throw away item.

Haven't had to be very fussy about fillets yet, paint mixing sticks seem to
get the job done.


--
Lew

S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland)
Visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for Pictures