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Re: Material: epoxy/fg sources
By:Chris Sperry
Date: 8/9/2009, 2:01 pm
In Response To: Re: Material: epoxy/fg sources (eric)

Keeping your epoxy and hardener warm greatly helps to reduce air bubbles during mixing. I have carefully used a heat gun on low for warming small batches of epoxy. After mixing, light use of the heat gun causes the bubbles to disappear. Use the heat gun from some distance.
Chris

: I've used Raka for some small stuff, but not yet for my boat. Question: how
: fast do you stir or mix the epoxy? I make a trillion bubbles if I mix at a
: normal speed. To mix with fewer bubbles I have to move at snails pace. I
: typically use a stir stick and small plastic cup. Should I be concerned
: with the amount of bubbles before application?

: Eric

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Material: epoxy/fg sources
george jung -- 8/8/2009, 12:12 am
Re: Material: epoxy/fg sources
Larry Crook -- 8/8/2009, 5:28 pm
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george jung -- 8/8/2009, 6:04 pm
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Larry Crook -- 8/9/2009, 9:11 am
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eric -- 8/9/2009, 11:08 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/10/2009, 12:17 am
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Chris Sperry -- 8/9/2009, 2:01 pm
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george jung -- 8/9/2009, 10:38 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/10/2009, 1:06 pm
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george jung -- 8/10/2009, 8:54 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/11/2009, 1:48 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/10/2009, 12:15 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/8/2009, 1:30 am
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george jung -- 8/8/2009, 10:36 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/8/2009, 12:55 pm