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Old 05-24-2011, 04:32 PM   #10 (permalink)
Vekke
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Few advices more.

1. If I remember corretcly acetone is not good for washing your hands. It cleans them but the resins go through your skin more easily after you have washed them with acetone. Always wash your hands with cold water first it closes your skin and glass fiber pieces wont go to your hands tiny holes (it wont ich so long). Loctite hand washing cream works well, it does not dry up your hands and cleans them.

2. Protective cloves and gear read suit is a must I would say with epoxy. Some people get epoxy allergy very easily. That aint fun at all when that happens.

3. If you arent making serial production parts the slow resing suits well for your purposes. Remember that bigger amount you mix the epoxy and hardener faster it starts to harden. If you mix too much at a time and arent able to lay it up, it can even start to burn.

4. For the whole car you will at least one roll of fiberglass cloth so I would buy one roll for starters. That goes for the resins also minimun need of 30 kg of resin. I would use fiberglass gloth something that weigths 300 grams is it 10 oz?

5. Buy this kind of electric scissors to help ease the pain on your fingers:
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs...olesalers.html

In finland you can find sometimes similar black and decker etc. under 15 dollars.
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