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Old 11-25-2013, 02:02 AM
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Aussie Damo
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Originally Posted by CafeenMan
Hi Damo,

I'll take some photos of the fuselage I'm glassing so you can see how it goes..
Some photos would be excellent.
I failed again today . Your advice about not getting polyester resin stuck, at the local hardware shop they had a tin clearly labelled polyester resin and the other fibreglass resin. bingo i thought, the second one must be the other type you talked about. The lovely lady behind the counter gave me the catalyst (you see where I'm going now dont you) to it and I was on my way home happy.

When i got home i checked this forum to see if any pics had been put up and read your post again and "little bottle"..... ahhhh, so it turns out i bought 500 grams of polyester resin.

To me, after some reading tonight, the easy way to tell them apart is that epoxy type resin is generally mixed in ratios from 1:1 to 1:4 with its agent while polyester is like 1:200 etc.

Ah well, live and let learn, ill probably keep it and use it on my first airboat I plan on building.

Just to confirm, I want stuff like this right?
http://ausrocketry.com.au/accessorie...-369grams.html

Damo