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EG160 High Temp Epoxy Tooling Gelcoat - Can it be thinned

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Steve Broad	Steve Broad posted 6 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 408, Visits: 4.1K	Can I thin this gelcoat with acetone? Working in chilly temps it is very thick and difficult to brush.
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Dravis	Dravis posted 6 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 592, Visits: 1.9K	Hi! You really should not work with tooling Gel-Coat in temperatures below 18-20 Degrees C. Just a bit of moisture in the air and low temps will get you into all kinds of problems. one way of handling the problem, if you really can not heat your workspace to 18-20 -21 degress, then heat the gelcoat to maybe 25 degrees C and mix the resin and hardener in a heated reoom ,then move quiclky to the workroom and work fast. "Sapere Aude"... Dare to KNOW! The written word is the only truly efficient vehicle for transmitting a complex concept from mind to mind... 103% of all people do not understand statistics... Do not adjust our mind, theres a fault in reality :-)
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Steve Broad	Steve Broad posted 6 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 408, Visits: 4.1K	+x Dravis - 3/30/2018 10:13:16 PM Hi! You really should not work with tooling Gel-Coat in temperatures below 18-20 Degrees C. Just a bit of moisture in the air and low temps will get you into all kinds of problems. one way of handling the problem, if you really can not heat your workspace to 18-20 -21 degress, then heat the gelcoat to maybe 25 degrees C and mix the resin and hardener in a heated reoom ,then move quiclky to the workroom and work fast. Thanks for that. Hopefully, as spring finally gets going, temps will rise. I did heat the gelcoat and this made a big difference. However, I would still like to know if the gelcoat can be thinned :-) Regards Steve
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