Tony
IF you can't have a warm immediate work area, you should be able to have a
warm cupboard in which to keep the roll of glass?
Bob Gowing (down near Vic Border)
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> Hi, I'm laying up here in Sydney in temperatures that have recently turned
towards our winter. I'm using West Systems which already does not wet out
the cloth as well as the SP Systems, and has a shorter pot life, albeit in
warmer weather. I'm preheating the job area, the Lift Pin external
reinforcement lay ups, and mixing the resin and hardener under workshop
spotlights that generate a lot of localised heat. The glass cloth though is
cold, and I am wondering about placing it in foil in the oven to heat it up
pre layup. I even thought of microwaving it, when my wife isn't at home. Any
thoughts on the wisdom or otherwise of doing this? I want to make the cold
cloth as conducive as possible to allow ingress of the resin into the
individual fibres of a single thread, as I occasionally have had some small
splinter strait ions in these layups that appear to be micro dry areas along
certain fibres, but the matrix between them is fully wetted out. Thanks in
anticipation.
Regards
Tony Renshaw
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