[bolger] Re: cold weather epoxy
Hi Fraser, thanks for the input. Especially the part about pot life and
birds mouth spar making. As I start to contemplate my Windsprint mast, this
info will be handy, as I had planned to use the birds mouth method as well.
I know I can get 45 minutes of pot life out of the stuff I'm using and
Windsprint's mast is smaller (16') but not that much less work.
Why the replacement for your current Chebacco mast? Just going for
lightness or did you have a failure?
Robert & Amy Lundy
St. Petersburg, fla.
robert@...
amy@...
birds mouth spar making. As I start to contemplate my Windsprint mast, this
info will be handy, as I had planned to use the birds mouth method as well.
I know I can get 45 minutes of pot life out of the stuff I'm using and
Windsprint's mast is smaller (16') but not that much less work.
Why the replacement for your current Chebacco mast? Just going for
lightness or did you have a failure?
Robert & Amy Lundy
St. Petersburg, fla.
robert@...
amy@...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fraser Howell [mailto:fraser.howell@...]
> Sent: January 10, 2000 5:14 PM
> To:bolger@egroups.com
> Subject: [bolger] cold weather epoxy
>
>
> The temperature here in Halifax has been a few degrees either side of
> freezing. I am making a mast for my chebacco, using the "birdsmouth"
> cutout technique recently described in WOODENBOAT. All joints are with
> "cold cure" epoxy. The epoxy joints are set up and workable with edge
> tools in 72 hr, but probably take a couple of weeks to reach total cure.
> The plus side is the long working life of a pot of mixed epoxy. It took
> me about two hours, working by myself, to apply the glue, and get the
> strakes lined up and clamped. The stuff is made by Industrial
> Formulators of Canada Ltd., and it is fairly expensive.
>
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The temperature here in Halifax has been a few degrees either side of
freezing. I am making a mast for my chebacco, using the "birdsmouth"
cutout technique recently described in WOODENBOAT. All joints are with
"cold cure" epoxy. The epoxy joints are set up and workable with edge
tools in 72 hr, but probably take a couple of weeks to reach total cure.
The plus side is the long working life of a pot of mixed epoxy. It took
me about two hours, working by myself, to apply the glue, and get the
strakes lined up and clamped. The stuff is made by Industrial
Formulators of Canada Ltd., and it is fairly expensive.
freezing. I am making a mast for my chebacco, using the "birdsmouth"
cutout technique recently described in WOODENBOAT. All joints are with
"cold cure" epoxy. The epoxy joints are set up and workable with edge
tools in 72 hr, but probably take a couple of weeks to reach total cure.
The plus side is the long working life of a pot of mixed epoxy. It took
me about two hours, working by myself, to apply the glue, and get the
strakes lined up and clamped. The stuff is made by Industrial
Formulators of Canada Ltd., and it is fairly expensive.