Advice regarding mixing ratio


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Hello there everyone. I bought a resin having the mixing ratio 100:2. I was wondering if using half I will use 50:1 or less 25:0,5 ? It is correct ?
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mdoru - 5/17/2019 10:21:04 AM
Hello there everyone. I bought a resin having the mixing ratio 100:2. I was wondering if using half I will use 50:1 or less 25:0,5 ? It is correct ? Thank you !

Sounds right.

Is it a polyester or vinyl ester catalyst?
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It is polyester.
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Advice regarding mixing ratio
mdoru - 6 Years Ago
     Sounds right. Is it a polyester or vinyl ester catalyst?
Fasta - 6 Years Ago
             It is polyester.
mdoru - 6 Years Ago
     Ratio is a ratio, it doesn't change. 100 parts Part A to 2 parts Part B is the multiplier and can be applied to any number you like. It simply means for every 100 parts of resin you have, you need 2....
Hanaldo - 6 Years Ago
             Thanks a lot ! So if I mix 50grams of resin I’ll use 49 A and 1 B
mdoru - 6 Years Ago
                 Unless I'm doing it wrong all the time it should be 50+1 But with polyester Resin and catalyst it shouldn't be to much of a problem not being 100% accurate
matthieutje65 - 6 Years Ago
                 A rule of thumb I use with Poly or Vinyl is 5 cc MEKP per half liter. 10cc if using tooling gelcoat. You really don’t need to be super accurate with poly or vinyl because they only need catalyst to...
JasonFL - 6 Years Ago
     I have always mixed catalyzed resins as 100g + 1ml for 1%, technically incorrect but bloody close, these resins adjustable % anyway and not a fixed ratio like other resins. Also makes the calculatio...
Fasta - 6 Years Ago

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