XCR Resin delamination


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Interloper393
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I work in a room in my house. ,  always warm and.cosy Smile
Always try to mix a bigger amount by doing alot of jobs at once, think this has helped me .
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Yeh there's quite a few epoxies out there that state they are non-blushing. 
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Hanaldo (22/05/2017)
Just took a look at the TDS, and it appears the XCR is in fact very sensitive to amine blush. 

What conditions have you guys been using the resin in, has it been at least 20 degrees and relative humidity of no more than 50%? 25 degrees is actually probably more ideal. 


West System 105 resin and 207 special clear hardener apparently doesn't suffer from blush.
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Ah, see small amounts are very difficult to measure accurately enough. With epoxy you should always be within 1% accuracy. For 12g, that means you can only be 0.12g out. Are you confident you were within that margin? 



And yeh, I understand having to work from home conditions, unfortunately these materials can be very sensitive and if you can't adjust the conditions to be suitable then it's better to just wait until they are. 
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I am using digital scales and mixing up 12g at a time (9g resin, 3g hardener).
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I would also tighten up on your weighing and mixing as slight errors in these can all contribute to the problems you are having.  When the mix ratio or mixing itself is out, the cured hardener components can come to the surface as with blushing causing the same problems.

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Just at home, I don't have access to workshop conditions.
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Just took a look at the TDS, and it appears the XCR is in fact very sensitive to amine blush. 

What conditions have you guys been using the resin in, has it been at least 20 degrees and relative humidity of no more than 50%? 25 degrees is actually probably more ideal. 
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Amine blush. It's a reaction between the amines in the hardener and moisture/carbon dioxide in the air. There's various types of amines, and some of them are much more prone to blushing than others, which is why some epoxy products may be deemed 'non-blushing' - they use an amine product that is much less sensitive (or in some cases, don't use any amines at all). 

Things to watch out for are cool, humid conditions, as this is when there is a lot of moisture in the air and the curing process takes longer so the blushing reaction has more time to present itself. The thing that catches a lot of people out is the carbon dioxide side of the reaction. People often try to heat up the area using a gas heater, which pumps out carbon dioxide. 

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What's blushing?
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