twiisted71
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Its been a while since I've done much f'glass work that really mattered and back then my Dad was in charge of all those things like selection of materiel. All I can remember was plain white 55 gal drums of resin, not much marking other than a haz-mat sticker.
I did some swim platform work while the boat was on the yard at the last minute while awaiting some unforeseen machine work to be done. My local supply house only had West System polyester resin in stock, so that is what I used. Luckily the platform is completely above the waterline and the repair was on the underside. But I now want to go ahead and get a gallon or two to keep on hand for various ideas I have planned for my diesel CJ7 project. So what brand resin do you guys use and why? I'm leaning towards more West System (5:1 mix) but going with epoxy this time, since I already have some 205 hardener. I'm curious about the MarPro (2:1 mix) and whatever else others are using. $100/gallon just for resin is not exactly cheap, esp if you are doing things the old fashioned way without a vacuum bagger whiz-bang mass production operation.
I did some swim platform work while the boat was on the yard at the last minute while awaiting some unforeseen machine work to be done. My local supply house only had West System polyester resin in stock, so that is what I used. Luckily the platform is completely above the waterline and the repair was on the underside. But I now want to go ahead and get a gallon or two to keep on hand for various ideas I have planned for my diesel CJ7 project. So what brand resin do you guys use and why? I'm leaning towards more West System (5:1 mix) but going with epoxy this time, since I already have some 205 hardener. I'm curious about the MarPro (2:1 mix) and whatever else others are using. $100/gallon just for resin is not exactly cheap, esp if you are doing things the old fashioned way without a vacuum bagger whiz-bang mass production operation.