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Old 12-02-2006, 12:33 AM
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Default RE: Epoxy mixture?

Glue DOC, I'm surprised you use regular epoxies. I have heard that industrial epoxies are much stronger. From what I understand industrial epoxies have weird mixing ratios such as 30:1, and that our hobby epoxies are use extenders to create the 1:1 ratios. The extenders supposedly weaken the epoxies to some degree.
Here is an epoxy I was going to try some of this, as I have heard it was very strong. Sure normal hobby epoxies work for most applications but for a 2 meter pattern plane that will see 3-400 flights in a season, I'd pay more for the piece of mind.
[link=http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/categoryg/10001/-1/10001/674/11160/4/man/asc/0/grid]West Marine epoxies[/link]

Also I know of some adding this as well for strength and weight savings.
[link=http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&classNum=165&subdeptNum=11160&storeNum=4&productId=28508]additive[/link]

Just wondering what your 2 cents are, Thanks Dylan