On Thursday 22 November 2012 12:26:18 Mark Wendt did opine: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 22 November 2012 11:50:45 Mark Wendt did opine: > >> I've got some laminating epoxy that requires well over 24 hours to > >> cure, and has a pot life of about three hours at room temp. I > >> suppose I could thin the epoxy with a bit of either DNA or acetone > >> to allow it to wick further, but the that epoxy consistency is right > >> about the same as a good, thick cuppa hot chocolate, so it should be > >> able to penetrate fairly well. > > > > That might work but I haven't seen anything like the epoxy I used on > > Bertha back in the 60's. Sold as water ski finish, clear as water & > > left that laminated walnut looking like milk chocolate, good enough > > to eat. 18 coats of it at the time, took around 8 hours at 125F in > > an old fridge to cure each one, hit it with a piece of 0000 steel > > wool so the next coat would stick. Repeat till tired of it, let cure > > another 72 hours to really harden up, then polish on the power buffer > > just like a piece of steel. Other than aging yellow, its been a > > great finish & has ridden probably 250,000 miles standing floor plate > > down across the transmission hump, against the front of the bench > > seat in many a vehicle over the last 45 or so years. More or less > > out of sight, handier than sliced bread. Many a deer has stood there > > watching in curiosity for the 10 seconds or so it took me to stop, > > swing open the door and slide out, trailing it behind me using the > > scope for a handle, rack a shell in and draw a bead. Dinner (yum) > > got a free ride home. ;-) > > That sounds more like a finishing resin rather than a laminating > epoxy. Finishing epoxies have little to no solids in them, since > they're designed for presentation and for making the surface pretty > much water proof. The yellowing you see in most laminating resins is > due to the solids in solution to get the characteristics they're > looking for in a laminating epoxy, > That all fits it to a T Mark. I don't even recall the brand name after all this time & its likely moot anyway. I have looked a bit at the local boat shops without finding anything that resembles that stuff at all. Mostly all they have in Marine rated paint. When I refinished the bottom of my boat about 4 years back, I bought 2 quarts of Oliver Tractor green from TSC and the hardener additive that makes it cure in about 4 hours & put at least 2 coats, high wear places 5 or 6 on it. It seems to be a very tough finish, not seriously damaging it running into a pebbled beach at 1 or so mph many times now. Thats a heavy (900 lbs) old honk, a '68 Terry Bass boat, and my 9.9 Yohnson only makes about 6 mph on the GPS with its tongue hanging out, no floatation so it would go down like a rock if I ever holed it. Makes a great trolling rig.
And I'm sorry to say I was otherwise busy this past summer and did not even get it wet. Shame on me, 500 lashes with a wet noodle or something. :( > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a > single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, > vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
