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Matthieu Libeert	Matthieu Libeert posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 955, Visits: 3.4K	you're welcome Adelbolide! Matthieu Libeert Founder MAT2 Composites X Sports website: www.mat2composites.com
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Adelbolide	Adelbolide posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 16, Visits: 112	Thanks everybody @ Matthieu: thanks for your tutorials. They help me a lot!
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Matthieu Libeert	Matthieu Libeert posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 955, Visits: 3.4K	you can heat it in an oven at 50 degrees C before using it to make it more fluid. before mixing A and B off course! or you can heat it in a bowl of water but keep the container closed and dont let any water going to the lid. moist and water arent good with resins! best of luck! Matthieu Libeert Founder MAT2 Composites X Sports website: www.mat2composites.com
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wozza	wozza posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 688, Visits: 5.4K	Gelcoats are designed to be viscous to help them cling to vertical surfaces of moulds. You don't say if it is a tooling gel or an in mould gel you are using and how you are applying it? What temperature are you storing it at? If stored in a cold workshop over night it will thicken considerably. Anything below 20 degrees C will have an effect. Never had to thin any of the EC gels I've used. Warren Carbon Copies Ltd
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brainfart	brainfart posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 198, Visits: 1.4K	> Should I thin it with something? Only if you want to spray it through a small nozzle. Polyester gel coats can be thinned with a little styrene and some acetone for this purpose, but this will slow their curing time.
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Adelbolide	Adelbolide posted 11 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 16, Visits: 112	Hello, I have a question. When I'm watching the tutorial videos the gel coat that's used there, is right fluid. I bought my gel coat at easycomposit but it's rather viscious and therefore not easy to apply. Should I thin it with something? Thanks in advance
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