Hi
It all looked so easy, even and old idiot like me could do it.
First gave my part 6 layers of easylease, that seemed to go ok.
Mounted it up and barriered off for a flange.
First coat of tooling gel, mixed 100g with 2g mekp, seemed a bit thin, but seemed to go on ok. Second coat a couple of hours later, mixed the same the first batch but it went off very quickly and in about 10 mins had turned to gel
Picture is what it looked like a day later, its got so hot its deformed the plastic cup i mixed it in.
Ok wasnt too worried as i had 2 reasonable layers of gel coat. left it over night, Could not decide in the conflict of information between the bonnet video, where the gel oat is left to tack before the next stage, or overnight as per the datasheet. So it was left overnight.
I have come back to the job later the next day aftrnoon, temperature about 25 deg according to the thermomenter in the log cabin where i am working to attempt the coupling coat. Mixed up the same size batch 100g coat, 2g mekp, i am using new scales purchased with the kit, and this time, as much as i was sturggling to get the coupling coat and mat nicely stippled down with no bubbles ( the mat was coming apart. It might not be the easiest shape to mould as a first piece. once again the resign turned to jelly in about 10 minutes and got so hot i could not even touch the bottom of the cup.
