Newbie mistake - hardener mixer ratios


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Philimon
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Hi Folks

Just thought I'd pass on a lesson I learnt last night. I'm very much a hobbiest and new to proper fiberglass. I'm no stranger to resin, though. The mixing ratio on the hardener bottle was a little ambiguous to me last night and I have some unset resin this morning. Instead of mixing 100 parts resin to 30 parts hardener  I thought the label indicated a range of 1:100 to 1:30 mixing ratio....

http://www.easycomposites.co.uk/Images/products/medium/AT30-Epoxy-Hardener-FAST-115g.jpg


Funny that, because I got the mixing ratio on the Gel Coat just right.

EasyComposites, if you're reading this, may I appeal to you to make your labels a little more unambiguous for "Idiots Like Me(tm)"? Its really my fault, but maybe we can save someone else having to re-do about 10 hours worth of work.

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matthieutje65 (18/01/2013)
thanks for your time and good information Matt, I didn't know there were so many "problems" with them!I'll stick to my scale BigGrin
Giving some standard mixratio's (A+B=C) on the bottle would be great!Always hate the fact that just when I want to start and have my mask and gloves on I have to calculate how much A+B I need to get C!


Unless I have been doing it wrong...here is how I get my totals. Everything has cured in the proper time so I think I am doing it correct.    First figure out how much total resin you need then divide that number by the mix ratio... Example....if you need 550 grams total and you have a 100:30 mix ratio divided 550/1.3=423.07 grams of resin.  So then fill a cup to 423g of resin then fill with hardener to 550g. 

If you happen to go over the amount of resin you were sopose to like say you end up with 432g of resin just multiply that by the mix ratio for the new total. example....432x1.3=561.6 total.

Also if you need to figure how big of a cup you will need to mix in just multiply the total resin by .035274 This will give you how many ounces that amout of resin is.  example.....550grams = 19.4oz  

hope this helps,

 Dennis
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