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Epoxy: Problems with West Systems
By:John Faas
Date: 5/24/2014, 11:50 pm

I am having some difficulties with my ratio of hardener and resin. I checked the website for West System and if I read it correctly the hardeners use the same ratios for both weight and volume-except for the 207--which I am not using yet. I bought a digital scale from Harbor Freight I have it set for grams.

I have now made two batches that never set up--stayed tacky. In between I got a larger amount to work fine.

Is is problematic to make up small batches???Do you fudge on the 1:5 ratio if making up a small batch?

And since it looks like I will be scraping some gunk of of some parts do I need to do anything special to the bare wood before I try to coat it again.

Thanks.

I thought the scale was going to be great. Works very well with 2:1(MAS) not so sure about 1:5 (West Systems)

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Epoxy: Problems with West Systems
John Faas -- 5/24/2014, 11:50 pm
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Paul Sylvester -- 5/25/2014, 6:45 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/25/2014, 8:11 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/25/2014, 8:14 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/25/2014, 8:18 am
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john vanburen -- 5/25/2014, 8:56 am
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Sean Dawe -- 5/25/2014, 10:27 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/25/2014, 10:39 am
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John Faas -- 5/25/2014, 11:58 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/25/2014, 12:14 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/26/2014, 1:45 am
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Mike Bielski -- 5/26/2014, 10:25 pm
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MattD. -- 5/25/2014, 1:08 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/25/2014, 1:32 pm
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sean-dawe@hotmail.com -- 5/25/2014, 3:54 pm
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John Faas -- 5/25/2014, 4:58 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/25/2014, 6:13 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 5/25/2014, 11:54 pm
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A. Edie -- 5/27/2014, 10:48 pm
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John Faas -- 5/28/2014, 10:38 am
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A. Edie -- 5/28/2014, 11:24 am
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Robert Horstmann -- 5/29/2014, 10:36 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/29/2014, 7:45 pm
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A. Edie -- 5/30/2014, 10:41 am