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Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
By:Chip Sandresky
Date: 11/17/2002, 10:32 am
In Response To: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options (Marcel Rodriguez)

Hi Marcel, I'm in Seattle. My garage is partly underground but it stays pretty chilly... probably around 50 deg. I use a small ceramic heater while I'm working. I can hold the mixing cup in front of the heater to get the epoxy flowing. And, it generates enough heat for the epoxy to kick. I leave the heater unplugged while I'm gone. I get a fairly solid cure after 48 hours with slow hardener, 24 hours with fast. You can also partition off part of the space with plastic dropcloths to help hold the heat; helps confine the dust too.

- Chip
http://www.nwlink.com/~chips

Messages In This Thread

Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Marcel Rodriguez -- 11/16/2002, 1:37 am
A wood burning stove eliminates your waste wood
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/19/2002, 5:13 am
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Tom -- 11/18/2002, 11:20 am
one caution to think about
Bruce Haugen -- 11/17/2002, 2:50 pm
Re: one caution to think about
Marcel Rodriguez -- 11/18/2002, 12:13 am
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Chip Sandresky -- 11/17/2002, 10:32 am
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Marcel Rodriguez -- 11/17/2002, 1:44 pm
Re: Shop: A convert... :)
Rehd -- 11/17/2002, 3:34 pm
Heating and moisture
Pascal, in Chile -- 11/17/2002, 9:21 pm
Re: Shop: Build a tent inside.
Rehd -- 11/16/2002, 10:56 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options *LINK*
Marcel Rodriguez -- 11/16/2002, 3:56 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Rick Allnutt -- 11/16/2002, 9:37 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Mike Scarborough -- 11/16/2002, 2:19 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Used Electic Furnace
Pete Roszyk -- 11/16/2002, 1:26 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
greg root -- 11/16/2002, 9:50 am
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options *Pic*
Rick Allnutt -- 11/16/2002, 9:47 am
Kerosene pro's and con's
Brian Nystrom -- 11/18/2002, 1:27 pm
Re: I would second that
Ron Hagedorn -- 11/16/2002, 12:31 pm
Finding Kerosene
Rick Allnutt -- 11/16/2002, 1:20 pm
Re: Finding Kerosene
Brian Nystrom -- 11/18/2002, 1:34 pm
Re: Shop: Heating the shop - Looking for options
Andy Waddington -- 11/16/2002, 4:31 am
Re: Shop: Break-down walls and tarp roof.
Rehd -- 11/16/2002, 10:46 pm