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Mixing Cups Worked For Me
By:David Bryson
Date: 11/16/1999, 6:49 pm
In Response To: Epoxy pump dispensers, users beware! (Matthew Bastian)

> While pumping a lot of epoxy this past weekend I made a very interesting
> and somewhat disturbing discovery. My pump was not pumping out consistant
> amounts of epoxy!

> I was wetting out my hull and when coming to the more finiky areas I was
> pumping into a syringe to measure out half batches. That is when I
> discovered my pump would sometimes give me 27,25 and 23 ml's!!! The epoxy
> is a 2:1 ratio mixture and I have never had problems with the epoxy fully
> curing. I therefore suspect that I'm within the tolerance of the epoxy
> even though I'm getting these wildly varying amounts. I was very suprised
> because I had understood that these pumps were supposed to be very
> accurate.

> Has anyone else encountered this phenomenon?

My pumps seemed to get a lot of air in them - so I used a cheap set of kitchen mixing cups. The small 1/8 c. was great for mixing small batches of epoxy. I bought the set at the grocery store for about $3.00. At the same time I bout a bag of platic bowls for about $2.00 to use as mixing bowls and platic knives to use as stiring sticks. Cheap and effective.

Messages In This Thread

Epoxy pump dispensers, users beware!
Matthew Bastian -- 11/16/1999, 8:55 am
Coffee Creamers
Jay Babina -- 11/18/1999, 10:41 am
Re: Yogurt Containers
Shawn Baker -- 11/19/1999, 10:39 am
Mixing Cups Worked For Me
David Bryson -- 11/16/1999, 6:49 pm
Re: Mixing Cups Worked For Me
Paul Connolly -- 11/18/1999, 12:34 pm
Re: Mixing Cups Worked For Me
Nolan -- 11/19/1999, 6:26 am
Re: Cleaning the mix cups
Don Beale -- 11/18/1999, 5:13 pm
Re: Mixing Cups Worked For Me
Mike Hanks -- 11/18/1999, 1:37 pm
Re: Mixing Cups Worked For Me
Paul Connolly -- 11/19/1999, 1:21 pm
Re: Mixing Cups Worked For Me
Nolan -- 11/19/1999, 2:07 pm
Re: Mixing Cups Worked For Me
Paul Connolly -- 11/19/1999, 1:21 pm
Re: Ditto
Mike Hanks -- 11/20/1999, 11:01 am
Re: Mixing Cups Worked For Me
Ross Leidy -- 11/19/1999, 3:09 pm
Re: Mixing Cups Worked For Me
Shawn Baker -- 11/19/1999, 4:08 pm
Okay, you've provoked a rant
Ross Leidy -- 11/20/1999, 1:41 pm
Re: Okay, you've provoked a rant
lee -- 11/20/1999, 9:08 pm
Re: Okay, you've provoked a rant
Ian Johnston -- 11/20/1999, 3:28 pm
Re: Supporting the Rant
Shawn Baker -- 11/20/1999, 3:21 pm
Re: Epoxy pump dispensers, users beware!
Nolan -- 11/16/1999, 10:50 am
Re: Epoxy pump dispensers, users beware!
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/16/1999, 10:08 am
Re: Dispensers and Ketsup
Dan Lindberg -- 11/16/1999, 1:20 pm
Re: use cheap mixing cups
Ross Leidy -- 11/16/1999, 9:22 am
Re: use cheap mixing cups
addison m. -- 11/21/1999, 12:43 am
Re: use cheap mixing cups
Phillip Kearney -- 11/17/1999, 5:22 am
Re: use cheap mixing cups
Matthew Bastian -- 11/17/1999, 1:39 pm
Medical Dispensing Cups
Chris in Cajun Country -- 11/16/1999, 10:18 pm
Re: Medical Dispensing Cups
Rehd -- 11/16/1999, 10:53 pm
Re: use cheap mixing cups
Paul C. -- 11/16/1999, 12:19 pm
Re: use cheap mixing cups
Shawn Baker -- 11/16/1999, 11:00 am