Right, Greg - I second that.

My favorite mixing container is a small plastic yogurt container. Some brands have a rounded hollow in the bottom -- look for the kind that have a perfectly flat bottom with a square corner to the sides. I my stir stick is a thin scrap of hardwood about an inch wide and 1/8 inch thick, with square corners. I taper the tip a little thinner on the belt sander. This lets me mix in every scrap of resin and hardener. I reuse the stick by cleaning it up on the sander after the epoxy hardens.

-- Dave

: Inadequate mixing can mean different things, one of them being resin not
: being exposedto the hardener during the mixing process. This occurs where
: the bottom meets the side of the container and any steps in the sides.
: Careful attention has to be paid to these areas to ensure that they get
: mixed up also other wise small pockets of pure resin can appear on the
: boat surface.

: Try to chose containers with minimal area like that will make adequate mixing
: easier.

: Greg