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- From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
- Subject: Re: Another Fiberglassing Question....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.051405.3809@rtsg.mot.com>
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- References: <1992Nov16.162843.26528@informix.com> <1992Nov17.152802.26427@rtsg.mot.com> <LARRY.92Nov20094155@peak.psl.nmsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:14:05 GMT
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- In article <LARRY.92Nov20094155@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
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- |To get epoxy to work better, try warming it up with a heat gun. As it gets
- |thinner, it will penetrate the cloth much better. The heat will also tend
- |to speed up curing. (Using "fast" epoxy is almost a guarantee of difficulty.)
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- PLEASE don't do this indoors. DO NOT breathe the fumes from heated epoxy.
- That is EXACTLY what brought on my sensitization to epoxy that I wrote
- about in another article. If you must heat epoxy, either do it outdoors
- in a breeze (while holding your breath, if you ask me), or use a respirator.
-
- Dave Svoboda, Palatine, IL
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