From my experience...

Dont waste your time with drops of hardener.

go to the medical supply store and pick up a nice seringe, without needle (VERY IMPORTANT!!! no needles, id hate to see somone get all sorts of hurt because if this)




(your seringe probably wont have toothpaste in it like the last picture, so dont be dissapointed )

These are the type youre looking for... 35 cc's 20 cc's whatever.. lots of times theyre in boxes of like 30 for 20 bux, maybe you can buy less, they mgiht even have something similar @ home depot, I havent looked.

take your 2 tubes of hardener you get with your gallon of resin, and squeeze them both out completley into some container with lid, so no spills and no worries about stepping on the tubes and having them break all over your floor making a wonderful smell (btw mekp will strip paint, i have a bald spot on my toolchest from a tube that leaked)

Pour out the amount of resin youre working with, whatever the amount may be, and use the seringe to draw in hardener to the right amount, and then dispense it intot he cup with resin in it.

I use translucent mixing buckets with labeling on them, so I go by OZ's to cc's with this chart.

Ok so, I made this up to hang in my garage so i dont have to do calculations all the time. this is with ~2% hardener/resin. 2 percent is a fiarly slow dry time.. like 20 mins working time, then drying time.. more hardener = faster dry time, but more heat.

oz of resin/CC's of hardener
1 .6
2 1.18
3 1.77
4 2.36
5 2.95
6 3.54
7 4.14
8 4.7
9 5.32
10 5.91

You can acheive pretty much every amount of resin/hardener from here...

11 oz of resin? 2.95 + 3.54 = 6.5 (or 5.91 + .6 lol)
11 oz -> cc's = 325.30 325.30 / 100 = 3.253 (1 %) * 2 = 6.5

Hope this may help anyone (and I really hope my math is right lol)
Keep in mind I use an MEKP dispenser and not the fagtastic drop by drop method, and feel free to add a bit more hardener for faster drying, these are ballpark numbers.

ok I edited it with more info.

 

Might as well keep adding info to this..

My MEKP dispenser and mixing buckets...

 

Jesse I don't understand how are you taking pictures without your camera

 

i have lke 4 gigs of pictures from like 3 years...

once i get the camera back tho, i'll do some more kick panel stuff.. maybe even a how to

 

nice info, wish i woulda known this b4

 

well now you know, get crackin, any other questions, jsut ask.. I had a whole conversation today on it..

 

yeah thanks to jesse's convo with me today i kinda figured out what steps to take. nothing beats hands on learning, but its easier and the learning goes faster if you have tricks and tips that you otherwise wouldnt have figured out without months/years of practice.

thanks jesse

kevin

 

yes my next project will be to make a box like the one below. After that i swear im gonna b done wit box makin for a while

 

oh and kpr10 how is that job at CC goin? i wish i was workin back there again

 

not a problem.. I wanted to learn so I went and butchered my own stuff, 2 years later I know a few shortcuts. I didnt have anyone to ask, so now I try to be there for help as much as possible.

af - yes, you WANT to build that..