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Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
By:Douglas Lee
Date: 7/16/2012, 6:14 pm
In Response To: Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener (Jay Babina)

: I did some boat repair yesterday with yellow RAKA fast hardener at
: least 8 years old and it worked perfectly.
: I've also used epoxy that was crystalized solid that I heated up to
: dissolve and It worked perfectly.
: As far as cans: I also had some real old WEST hardener that was
: black and it worked perfectly. For a larger job it wise to do a
: tiny test first but for me, I never had epoxy fail unless I filp
: flopped the ratio ( which I did once ). You never make that
: mistake again.

Hello Jay

Have you ever used the new RAKA UV epoxy (blue colored) ? I just ordered a 3 gal. Kit. (2gal epoxy and 1 gal hardener)
RAKA said it works better than the old formulation and is the most popular of all his epoxies.. We will see next week when it arrives.

Messages In This Thread

Epoxy: yellow hardener
Douglas Lee -- 7/12/2012, 8:19 pm
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
Jay Babina -- 7/13/2012, 8:09 am
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
Malcolm Schweizer -- 7/13/2012, 10:20 am
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
John Abercrombie -- 7/13/2012, 1:12 pm
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
Bill Hamm -- 7/15/2012, 2:31 am
Re: Epoxy:prevention of yellowing.
Douglas Lee -- 7/15/2012, 4:03 pm
Re: Epoxy:prevention of yellowing.
Bill Hamm -- 7/16/2012, 12:13 am
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
Douglas Lee -- 7/13/2012, 11:17 am
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
Ian Johnson -- 7/14/2012, 7:01 am
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
Douglas Lee -- 7/13/2012, 3:07 pm
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
Jay Babina -- 7/16/2012, 7:59 am
Re: Epoxy: yellow hardener
Douglas Lee -- 7/16/2012, 6:14 pm