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Matt Stevs	Matt Stevs posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 6, Visits: 140	Thanks for the info! I think I will find an alternative to the polyester for now. Thanks!
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Dravis	Dravis posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 592, Visits: 1.9K	You will definitely need an active and powerful extraction ventilation if you are HVLP spraying Polyester based coatings.. Styrene is very smelly stuff, and will probably "contaminate" neighboring storage/workshop spaces with smell, unless you have very strong extraction ventilation. Epoxies are not a problem at all, most of them give off almost no vapours Since you will probably be grinding and cutting the finished parts, a combined dust and air extraction is ideal, although you can use an industrial vacuum cleaner for the grinding and cutting. When I spray EC's GC50, which is a polyester based gelcoat, i run a 200Watt extraction fan, with 6" tubing, with a 15" funnel directly over my work-table. My workshop which is only 12' x 12' and an 8' ceiling still gets very smelly .. "Sapere Aude"... Dare to KNOW! The written word is the only truly efficient vehicle for transmitting a complex concept from mind to mind... 103% of all people do not understand statistics... Do not adjust our mind, theres a fault in reality :-) Edited 11 Years Ago by Dravis
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Matt Stevs	Matt Stevs posted 11 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 6, Visits: 140	Hello, I am looking for a suitable place to use as a workshop forlaminating during the cold winter months. There are a few storage facilitiesthat offer units as workshops. These are climate controlled spaces with I'massuming some sort of ventilation. My question is, how much ventilation will I need to safelywork in this environment? I will be doing mostly wet-lays with vacuum. I amlaminating with epoxy resin, and possible going to start using a polyestersurface coat (duratec sunshield) as well, which is applied with a HVLP gun. Depending on the availability and pricing, the floor spacewill be around 10'X20' with, I'm guessing, 9' ceilings. Here are some info sheets of the materials I will be using. Duratec Sunshield http://cdn.fibreglast.com/downloads/00457-A.pdf http://cdn.fibreglast.com/downloads/SunShield_MSDS.pdf Aeropoxy Epoxy http://www.ptm-w.com/dynamicdata/data/docs/aeropoxy%20pr2032%20bulletin.pdf http://www.ptm-w.com/MSDSDocuments/Aeropoxy/7APPR2032.pdf http://www.ptm-w.com/MSDSDocuments/Aeropoxy/7APPH3630.pdf Any information is appreciated. And I would love to see whatyour workshop layouts and setups are! Thanks!
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