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Re: How was your epoxy cured?
By:Mark Kanzler
Date: 7/29/1998, 1:51 pm

Would temp (and cure rate) etc. matter?

> Now that you tell us what happened it is clear that the failure
> is a compression failure at the glass/epoxy interface.

> I usually get those failures before the epoxy is fully cured
> - I have often moved a freshly glassed deck around my shop. If you
> take a piece of scrap with fiberglass on it (part of your cockpit
> cutout), you can duplicate the failure by bending the scrap slowly.
>

> How cured was your epoxy when the damage happened?

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Re: How was your epoxy cured?
Mark Kanzler -- 7/29/1998, 1:51 pm