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Waited too long...
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:41 pm
by Dan_Smullen
To get off the 30 bucks for a kitchen scale.
Mixing epoxy by weight allows me to to mix the smallest of batches that are not limited to how small of a graduated container is on hand. It's a game changer.
Also, as much as I've read about drilling 2 holes in bubbles to fill, it was only today that I did it for the first time. Watching the bubble fill, and thickened epoxy ooze out of the 2nd hole, may have been the most satisfying thing I did this weekend. I'll never grind another bubble again!
Re: Waited too long...
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:51 pm
by VT_Jeff
Dan_Smullen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:41 pm
To get off the 30 bucks for a kitchen scale.
Mixing epoxy by weight allows me to to mix the smallest of batches that are not limited to how small of a graduated container is on hand. It's a game changer.
Also, as much as I've read about drilling 2 holes in bubbles to fill, it was only today that I did it for the first time. Watching the bubble fill, and thickened epoxy ooze out of the 2nd hole, may have been the most satisfying thing I did this weekend. I'll never grind another bubble again!
Agreed on the scale! I printed out a spreadsheet with all the ratios from like .1 oz. to 9.9 or whatever so I never need to use a calculator.
I usually mash bubbles, I need to try the 2 hole trick.
Re: Waited too long...
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:56 pm
by Dan_Smullen
VT_Jeff wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:51 pm
Dan_Smullen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:41 pm
Agreed on the scale! I printed out a spreadsheet with all the ratios from like .1 oz. to 9.9 or whatever so I never need to use a calculator.
I usually mash bubbles, I need to try the 2 hole trick.
Try it!
Re: Waited too long...
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:03 pm
by VT_Jeff
Dan_Smullen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:56 pm
VT_Jeff wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:51 pm
Dan_Smullen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:41 pm
Agreed on the scale! I printed out a spreadsheet with all the ratios from like .1 oz. to 9.9 or whatever so I never need to use a calculator.
I usually mash bubbles, I need to try the 2 hole trick.
Try it!
Someday. Glassing on this boat is, as they say in Hollywood, In the Can!
Re: Waited too long...
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 9:14 pm
by fallguy1000
How much thickener?
Re: Waited too long...
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:33 pm
by Dan_Smullen
fallguy1000 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 9:14 pm
How much thickener?
Enough to make it look like puss oozing out of the relief hole.
Regarding mixing with the scale, I just read the stickie at the top of the epoxy page. Mixing ratio for MarinEpoxy is not 2:1, but 1:.43.
Spreadsheet showing ratios from 1-60 now printed and close to the mixing bench.
Re: Waited too long...
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:48 pm
by Dan_Smullen
Dan_Smullen wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:33 pm
fallguy1000 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 9:14 pm
How much thickener?
Enough silica to make it look like puss oozing out of the relief hole.
Regarding mixing with the scale, I just read the stickie at the top of the epoxy page. Mixing ratio for MarinEpoxy is not 2:1, but 1:.43.
Spreadsheet showing ratios from 1-60 now printed and close to the mixing bench.