Hardener past shelf life, can I infuse again?


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I just infused my latest part, nice vacuum, 50/50 slow and fast hardeners and it seemed to take a long time to infuse 1kg of resin, nearly 35 minutes.  Left at 18-22 degrees for 6 days and when the bag came off, the infusion tubes and the very edges of the part are solid but the rest of the part is soft with thick gooey resin all over. The vacuum has obviously gone but I might be able to re-bag it if I can get rid of any tiny hardened slivers which might puncture the new bag. Is it worth me persevering with that? If I can draw a new vacuum is it worth me running a lot of fresh resin and hardened through or is that a waste of time given there's gooey resin everywhere or should I just leave it alone and try a heat lamp for a few days? Worse case for me is having to throw the carbon away and start again as it is a thick part. It's a standard easy composites epoxy uni-mould system mould with in2 infusion resin. Any thoughts welcome....thanks.
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