: Scott & Sam,
: It sounds like you both are satisfied with the epoxy, but are not sold on the
: cloth or the hardener. Is this correct?

Steve,
I have not used Raka's 5oz cloth, so I can't comment. I am however happy with their 350 hardener, but again, I really have nothing to compare it to. Bottom line, Raka has good epoxy resin and hardeners at a low price. I've bought resin from them twice, both 3 gal kits, once with a combination of fast and 350 hardeners, and the other with all 350 hardener (because I still had fast left over). I do believe their 350 "non-blush" hardener eliminates a wash down to avoid the possiblity of amine blush, I've never had to do it and haven't had any problems. Nor have I heard of any blush problems with that hardener.
I would highly recommend both fast and slow hardeners of which ever brand you get, so you can mix the appropriate amout of each to achieve the desired cure time.
Speaking of mixing epoxy, this measuring method has been discussed many times on this board, but for those who don't know this method, here it is again:

Buy plastic drinking cups (I use 8oz clear), place one cup inside of the other and fill the inside cup with 1, 2, 3 or 4oz of water (from a measuring cup), place a dot on the outside cup with a permenant pen at the surface of the water. Now measure half of what you measured the first time (of course this is for 2:1 ratio epoxies) and add that to the cup and make another mark. Remove inside cup, drill small(1/16th") holes in the marking cup at both dots you made. Grab a new cup and place it into your new measuring cup and while holding the marker in the first hole, spin the inside cup. Now do the same for the other mark. Now you have a disposable measuring cup. Fill to the first line with resin, then to the second with hardener. Even if you are using pumps, this is a quick and nearly foolproof way of mixing. This picture also show the syringes in the catsup bottles for very small batches, those work great as well.

Sorry for such a long post, I'm flying on coffee this morning.
SMF