Mississippi? That's where I was born. Columbus, MS. Mom's from Eupora, Dad's from Greenville. Grandad built and raced wooden boats on the MS River. From Mississippi to the Virgin Islands... go figure.

I was going to try the fridge thing with the epoxy, but I'm really afraid it will form condensation inside the can, and then I will have $130 worth of ruined epoxy. Tonight I was gluing up the last of the cockpit lip, and being out of fast-cure that I use for gluing, I tried adding just one teeny tiny extra squirt of slow-cure hardener to one full pump of epoxy and one full pump of hardener. I was thinking this would speed up the process, i.e. more hardener = faster hardening, right? Well, it seems to me it slowed it down. I guess it only makes sense that it would harden on a bell curve in relation to epoxy vs resin, and you gain hardness up to a point and then begin to lose it again until the point where you have just a big gooey blob of hardener with just a little resin swimming around in it. I'm going to see how this mix cures and maybe I'll go with a more scientific test and add x ammount of hardener and see how that cures. To me this "off the cuff" mix I did with just a little dab extra hardener seemed to flow better, and is definately hardening slower. I did a test with the remainder and it did not seem to have the foaming problem. I have tested my pumps and I am certain they are working properly. Perhaps in warm temps you need more hardener? Don't take that as advice, especially until we see how this actually hardens in the AM. And today is pretty warm, though I'm too lazy to run find my thermometer to see just how warm. We will see in the morning if it actually dries, or if I will be spending more time scraping wet epoxy goo off my cockpit rim.

Well, do me a favor and kiss the dirt in Mississippi for me, and if you live near the river toss a stone in for me too.

Thanks,

Malcolm