Our Uni-Mould Tooling Gelcoat and Coupling coat are actually Vinylester resins.  Only the Tooling resin itself is polyester based.  However, in catalyst terms, all 3 resins use the same standard reactivity MEKP so if you find a local source of MEKP that works for one, then it should work fine with all our Polyester and vinylester based products.


Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

It is not a brand we are specifically familiar with so check with the manufacturer.  Our MEKP is a standard grade standard activity MEKP, so you should be asking for those properties from your supplier.


Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

I believe it is different reactivity levels but you are best checking with the manufacturer to be sure.


Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

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Warren (Staff) - 2/3/2015 10:31:21 AM

Boat builders, chandlers, canoe places, car body places etc all likely to supply composite materials and hence a usable MEKP.

There is nothing special about the MEKP we supply, you can ask at your local supplier for ‘Standard reactivity MEKP’; brands such as Andanox KP9, Akperox A30, Butanox M50 (Akzo Nobel) are all suitable and very widely available.

Hi,

I have the same situation here. I want to buy and ship to Spain or Switzerland and cannot get MEKP from easycomposites.

I have been looking for alternative MEKP, and I have found Butanox M20.

What is the difference between M20 and M50? Is the % ratio to be mixed the same? (I have read somwhere that the difference is the concentration of MEKP...)

Thanks!

Cheesy video, but gives you an idea of what could happen in large quantities

Take the lids off and shake it around? 

Thanks for the info Warren, it's always good to know what we are dealing with. I didn't know the exact reason for it being banned by the ferry companies. So the way we handle it should be considered too. I now have 5 x 200ml bottles on a shelf in my garage; any special recommendations on what I shouldn't do with it?

Heh, my last shipment of DG's included 2.5L of various types of mekp. The box was obviously not treated very carefully enroute, as it got crushed and leaked about 200ml from each bottle.