Back when I was a volume mixer I used to have a lot of left over epoxy. I couldn't just throw everything away, so I started making sanding blocks with the stuff that had hardened in the bottom of the cup. In order to get a flat surface I spray glued Super 77 on a sheet of sand paper and stuck it to my workbench. I then sanded the resin puck until it was smooth. Next, I spray glued sand paper to the bottom and cut out the outline with an exacto knife.
I use these all the time.
glue them to the sides, nice double concave builders
put the resin in the freezer and use it the following day
Could you also freeze it in portions (? ice-cube containers?) and then defrost as many as you need?
Acgua you get a big thumbs up and an Atta Boy for this excellent suggestion!
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freezing epoxy only works in small amounts and it doesn't keep forever. I'm thinking less than 24 hours
How does weighing your epoxy make you know how much you need for a certain sized board?
That was just a joke. It doesn't really make a difference.
Although… I didn't create any new pucks on my most recent board, and I did use the scale method for it.
Maybe it had something to do with the old buckets that I was getting from home depot. The lowest marker line on those was at 4 oz. I was always doing either 6 oz batchs (4 oz resin + 2 oz hard), or 12 oz batches (8 oz of resin+ 4 oz hard). If I wanted to do something in between then I would have had to fill to a point in between a couple of markers, or I guess I could have turned the cup around and used something that came close on the metric system markers. That was just too much mental effort, so I ended up mixing a bunch of 12 oz batches when all I really needed was 8 oz. Now that I have the scale I just do a quick calculation on my epoxy encrusted shop calculator, mix it up (in one cup), and pour. Super simple… and no waste.
Stop going to the Home depot for surfboard supplies. Go to an Automotive paint supply store. they sell the PPG cups that are made for mixing volumes etc. They have them in little ones for spot repair…like 6 oz max, and big ones for 5 gallons. The cost about 50 cents each. To me it looks like you waisted about 15 bucks worth of epoxy…thats 30 cups.
Now if you would have put spiders or scorpins in that resin…you would have had art. Or next time mix the left overs with a tad of colors, do a bottom of the cup swirl and use them as drink coasters. Now that would be fancy.
I was ready for how you lay out your glass and cut the lap and roll the fiberglass up and then weigh it and then go to your fiberglass cloth chart showing what oz and weave type and making sure you were on the hand lamination and not vacuum bag column and then get the final number to weigh out based on the barometric pressure and room temperature that day then re-roll out the fiberglass on the foam only to realize you have the tail and nose mixed up and then touch everthing 3 more times and then laminate after 100 stirs + 60 stirs of the epoxy resin.
I know, I know…it works every time it is tried.
Resinhead wrote:
Now if you would have put spiders or scorpins in that resin…you would have had art. Or next time mix the left overs with a tad of colors, do a bottom of the cup swirl and use them as drink coasters. Now that would be fancy.
best board of the decade hands down.
Cool Barry! Is it a widow?
I dig the pinstriped webs!
Lavarat has a cockroach board
Hell yeah!
My shop is full of them.
I jokingly call them my girlfriends.
Got them pinned to the walls everywhere.
That board is the "Black Widow Model".
Solid Agave. 7'4" x 3"
And yes, it has a red hourglass on the bottom.
Coolest thing I've seen in a long time! My kid has a scorpion we might try it on.
