…what that stuff on the garage floor is. Is your car leaking something?
Damn, the one time I get lazy…
Atleast you didn’t do tinted lam… in the basement.
regards,
Håvard
…and the 8’10 triple flyer fangtail "moonrocket’ outline would be even harder to explain !
…and now you have a permanent record for your template library.
That’s one bad bladder problem you have there…
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That’s one bad bladder problem you have there…
And orientation problem …do you always walk in elipse patterns when you take a piss ?
I guess, when we all dement , and end up in nursing homes [if the resin doesn’t kill us first ?] , we’ll be able to spot the ex-shapers by the template puddles near their bedroom doors …
“sorry nurse , I had to hurry …me resin’s starting to gel …” etc …
At least “Shwuz” will be able to look after us , or his son[s] and / or daughter[s] …if he teaches them well , they will have “shaper’s empathy”.
"bad ...bladder.... worst " ben
Heee… yes, I do believe I have seen something like that before.
Now, my workshop/ding repair area/general disaster gets used for a number of things. Some of which require a fairly smooth floor. And after doing dings in one corner for a summer, I found that I had what you might call a leetle buildup of resin. No big deal, but when running the thickness planer over there on its carriage with iron-wheeled casters it had a tendancy to hit and the carriage would stop. Not the damn-near-500-lb thickness planer, mind you, just the carriage.
So, I needed to deal with it. That or play catch with some iron that weighs three times what I do.
Enter ( stage left ) Harbor Freight and a $10 US set of five ball-pein hammers. Starting with the roughly 24 oz size, I peened the resin away. Used no more than the weight of the hammer, a nice bouncing stroke kinda like an old-school blacksmith would use banging away on his anvil. Resin broke up very nicely, bits flying off to wherever - safety glasses a must. Face shield and long sleeve shirt not a bad idea, 'cos the edges of those busted bits of resin flying around can be kinda sharp.
The little bits that might be left after the bigger hammer had smacked the big chunks? Smaller pieces, smaller hammer. Didn’t mess up the cement floor at all.
A Mason’s hammer, with it’s crosshatched square face and long pick-like other end, that might work fine too, but I had all those ball pein hammers and some time and so I just turned up the radio and tapped away to the music…
The neighbors didn’t think I was nuts. They know that already. More like confirmation of same…
hope that’s of use
doc…
An old wood chisel and a hammer also works fine, the chisel somehow making its way UNDER large chunks of resin and unsticking them with less bits flying at your eyes and walls and shaped blanks you forgot to take out of the place…
My first response was,"That’s all? You must be good."Mike
If it’s a problem, and you want to avoid it, and what many of us have done - Don the eye protection, break out the hammer, and perhaps the chisle… collect some recycle cardboard and layout and tape up a nice floor cover - Wah-la, pick it all up some day and recycle. Good luck, and good surfin’ (Hope the shoulder is doin’ better.) Taylor
A simple 5 dollar blue tarp from walmart would last forever at that drip rate.
“A simple 5 dollar blue tarp from walmart would last forever at that drip rate.”
cmphawaii…you soooo funny! Remind me not to shoulder hop you…I’d never hear the end of it.
Here’s the dumb part. I (almost) always use some remnant roofing underlayment when I glass. Just a complete brain fart this time. Trouble is that it was RR epoxy and now, after the hammer and chisel treatment, I’ve got lots of little divots where the epoxy brought up chunks of concrete. I did notice, however, that my local paint shop sells an epoxy floor covering for garages, etc. Maybe instead of doing fin layups with the extra resin I can just spread it over the floor in sections.
Tinted to floor color power poxy paste or even better get an 85 gallon rr pack and write it off as a home improvement expense.
At one time I was keen to get rid of the now 2" high resin surfboard template on my garage floor but recently I have grown to like it. This multi-coloured talking point is a way off showing off to my mates - " Oh yeah and I shape my own boards " !
Steve
I think the floor design is a good start. Let the materials and colors do their thing, loosen the reins on the artistic paladin inside you, and see what secondary beauty emerges from the faceless, souless cement. It’ll probably increase the resale value of the house.
Once you’ve done a bunch of different size boards, you get a bunch of different size negatives (look at the floor, not the blank)…
A baby sledge and a six-pack takes care of mine about once a year, whether it needs it or not.
Doesnt’ anyone remember how Larry Bertlemen (sp?) use to take his resin drippings - I guess after quite a few boards - and sell 'em as high art? Chippy - Break out the archives and post us some pics!
brain fart …good provided you don’t smoke…
resin art…ask hicksy’s daughters what I do with my left over resin !
bertlemann… interesting how you didn’t hear him talk about that any more , once the tax guys [your “IRS” , I think ?] , apparently paid him a visit .
then later , I guess he disappeared from view because of other …er…chemicals …
…"see kiddies ? …It starts with polyester , then when that no longer satisfies , it can lead to STRONGER chemicals " …or something … maybe the new ad campaigns could read …
“kids , say no to resin…”
Now…where’s that picture someone posted once [a drawing] , of a guy running out of a shaping bay , with a batch of on-fire resin in his hand ?
ben
Eureka!
Now I know what I’m gonna do with the two pairs of crutches I keep in my closet “just in case” (from broken ankle and fin-gash, separate incidents) They always give you new ones anyway.
Nice idea, Benny, thanks!
Click-stop adjustable too!
wells
You’re not the only one that noticed the crutches in the buckets for racks. Pretty clever! I had some sawhorses left over from when my house was built. Screwed upright wooden “T” s to one as a temporary glassing rack. Used the Clark foam box underneath to catch the drippings. Worked so well I still use it. Easy to put to the side or unscrew the Ts if I need a sawhorse!