Interesting, Tony. We've not had any problem with the harder sweating through
the
plastic soft drink/water bottles. They get crusty on the outside from grubby
gloves during the layup, but that's it. I belive these types of bottles are
LDPE.
Chris
Tony Renshaw wrote:
> If you leave the hardener in a polyethylene container for any length of
> time it will sweat through. I bought some "concertina walled" food storage
> containers so that I could keep the volume of air above the hardener to a
> minimum but found this weeping, like condensation, on the outside of them.
> Suffice to say I chucked yet another load of hardener, in case the plastic
> had introduced impurities. It seems that polyethylene is the only option,
> otherwise metal tins or glass is best. It is very hard to find polyethylene
> food storage containers. The market is basically saturated with the cheaper
> polyethylene.
> Beware anything else except glass/metal for decanting, unless you can be
> assured it is poly ethylene.
> Reg
> Tony Renshaw
> P.S. My expertise comes from losing so many loads of hardener trying to
> perfect the best option. I am the expert on why floating foam lids in resin
> pumps DONT work if anyone else wants to give that a try too.
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