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Newbie mistake - hardener mixer ratios

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baja_patient	baja_patient posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 135, Visits: 1.6K	Haha... na man no worries, I always think about it twice as well... but yeah you're correct with 50g - 15g! good luck.
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Philimon	Philimon posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 68	baja_patient (17/01/2013) Doesn't get much more unambiguous than that. 100 % Resin 30% Hardener Ah, but that's because you're clearly not an "Idiot Like Me(tm)" Ironically, the gel coat hardener does put it in plain English: it literally says "Mix 5 parts epoxy gel coat to 1 part epoxy gel coat hardener". Even I can figure that one out. Anyway, I've just laid up again, with 50g resin mixed with a further 15g hardener. Lets hope it sets now.
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baja_patient	baja_patient posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 135, Visits: 1.6K	Doesn't get much more unambiguous than that. 100 % Resin 30% Hardener
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Philimon	Philimon posted 12 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 68	Hi Folks Just thought I'd pass on a lesson I learnt last night. I'm very much a hobbiest and new to proper fiberglass. I'm no stranger to resin, though. The mixing ratio on the hardener bottle was a little ambiguous to me last night and I have some unset resin this morning. Instead of mixing 100 parts resin to 30 parts hardener I thought the label indicated a range of 1:100 to 1:30 mixing ratio.... Funny that, because I got the mixing ratio on the Gel Coat just right. EasyComposites, if you're reading this, may I appeal to you to make your labels a little more unambiguous for "Idiots Like Me(tm)"? Its really my fault, but maybe we can save someone else having to re-do about 10 hours worth of work. Cheers Philimon Tags #newbie #idiot #hardener #mixing #ratio
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