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Hi very basic to you boys but i have never worked with epoxy before ,so be gentle.
  I wish to fit drawers in the rear of my van but to keep the weight down was to make them out of thin ply? then coat them with epoxy ,maybe a strip of glass on the corners.

1. is this idea possible
2.what materials 
3.how to go about it
4. will they stand up to the hard usage and weight of being in a work van
5. Any other advice would be great

(i am a carpenter so timber construction side of things is not a problem, i just want to keep the weight down but maintain strength)
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Yes it is possible. People quite commonly coat wood with epoxy to seal and provide a hard wearing surface.  The resin you want is our

Epoxy Coating Resin which is a good hard wearing resin. You can just use some 290g Woven Glass Plain Weave to do any reinforcements on corners etc hand laminated on.


It is simple to do too.  Key the wood and ensure it is clean and dust free. Where you are adding glass, add a layer of resin and allow it to part cure tacky.  Then lay up the fibreglass on the tacky resin. It should stick in place.  Then coat over the whole wood surface with the resin.  Ensure when you overcoat the fibreglass that you wet it out fully and get out any bubbles. The glass will go from white to semi-transparent when wetted out. 

Let it cure. You can recoat any dry patches if you wish.


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Thanks for that warren ,would a piece of 9mm ply 1.0m square coated with epoxy reinforced with glass on all corners be as strong as 19mm ply uncoated?
Warren (Staff) (26/03/2014)
Yes it is possible. People quite commonly coat wood with epoxy to seal and provide a hard wearing surface.  The resin you want is our

Epoxy Coating Resin which is a good hard wearing resin. You can just use some 290g Woven Glass Plain Weave to do any reinforcements on corners etc hand laminated on.


It is simple to do too.  Key the wood and ensure it is clean and dust free. Where you are adding glass, add a layer of resin and allow it to part cure tacky.  Then lay up the fibreglass on the tacky resin. It should stick in place.  Then coat over the whole wood surface with the resin.  Ensure when you overcoat the fibreglass that you wet it out fully and get out any bubbles. The glass will go from white to semi-transparent when wetted out. 

Let it cure. You can recoat any dry patches if you wish.

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