<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Alan,</span></div><div><span>look at liquid plastic on e bay. It is cheap and there is one brand that cures at 180 degrees f. This is polyurethane casting resin. Nice stuff but maybe not for kort nozzles. </span></div><div><span>Hank </span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, November 11, 2013 6:03:27 PM, Alan <alanlindsayjames@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div
id="yiv4907516942"><div><div>Hi Hank,</div><div>I'm not familiar with liquid plastic.</div><div>I use the West systems epoxy, where you have your epoxy & hardener & throw</div><div>In the other additives that give it various properties, like hardness. </div><div>The glass fibre will give it a lot of structural strength & I can mix it in as thick or</div><div>as thin as I want depending on the section thickness / complexity of the form I want to fill.</div><div>Also price wise, mixing seems a lot cheaper than off the shelf pre-mixed items.</div><div>Alan<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPad</div><div class="yiv4907516942yqt8034889154" id="yiv4907516942yqt85216"><div><br clear="none">On 12/11/2013, at 1:30 PM, hank pronk <<a href="mailto:hanker_20032000@yahoo.ca" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:hanker_20032000@yahoo.ca">hanker_20032000@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br
clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span>Alan,</span></div><div><span>this may be a dumb question,,, why not use liquid plastic. The stuff I use is strong and shrinks almost nothing. It also does not generate heat when curing. This stuff is the harness of a hockey puck.</span></div><div><span>Hank</span></div><div class="yiv4907516942yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, November 11, 2013 5:26:33 PM, Alan James
<<a href="mailto:alanlindsayjames@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:alanlindsayjames@yahoo.com">alanlindsayjames@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv4907516942y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4907516942"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>To interested parties,</div><div>I spoke with a 3d printing expert, Richard, regarding filling hollow sections of 3d printed items with</div><div>fiber reinforced resin. He hadn't heard of it, but thought it had a lot of potential.</div><div>He suggested watching out for heat generated in the exothermic reaction, as we had already</div><div>discussed, and printing a roughened interior surface as a key <span style="font-size: 14pt;">for the epoxy, to stop the exterior </span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue,;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">delaminating.</span></div><div>I also
spoke to an epoxy tech who told me epoxy
only shrinks about 1/2% & with additives such as</div><div>milled fiber the percentile shrinkage of the whole will decrease proportionate to the additive.</div><div>So shrinkage may not be a major problem.</div><div>Will do some experimenting.</div><div>Alan</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>
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