Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:17:02 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m02.mx.aol.com ([64.12.136.5] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.2) with ESMTP id 2550705 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:40:45 -0400 Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-m02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id q.14c.2347e64b (30950) for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:40:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <14c.2347e64b.2c7e9b78@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:40:40 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Cabosil X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1062027640" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 650 -------------------------------1062027640 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Flox is structural. Cabosil and micro baloons are not. Flox (cotton FIBERS and epoxy) strengthen an epoxy joint because of the fibers in the matrix. Cabosil and micro are cosmetic only and strengthen nothing. These components are weak themselves. Cabosil keeps epoxy from running. Micro make the fill light - but not strong. Epoxy, by itself, is a brittle matrix. Do not allow excess to make a structural joint unnecessarily brittle. Don't experiment with these concepts. If you are doing something structural, don't use cabosil or micro unless the use is as a fillet, to make later applications of bid (glass or carbon) to an L shaped joint across such a fillet, not at a sharp angle. Flox is good for structural fillet material if the glass (or carbon) is to be applied whilst the flox is still wet. Scott Krueger Sky2high@aol.com LNC2 N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL (KARR) -------------------------------1062027640 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Flox is structural.

Cabosil and micro baloons are not.

Flox (cotton FIBERS and epoxy) strengthen an epoxy joint because o= f the fibers in the matrix.

Cabosil and micro are cosmetic only and strengthen nothing. These compo= nents are weak themselves. Cabosil keeps epoxy from running. Mic= ro make the fill light - but not strong.

Epoxy, by itself, is a brittle matrix. Do not allow excess to mak= e a structural joint unnecessarily brittle.

Don't experiment with these concepts. If you are doing something=20= structural, don't use cabosil or micro unless the use is as a fillet, to mak= e later applications of bid (glass or carbon) to an L shaped joint acro= ss such a fillet, not at a sharp angle. Flox is good for structur= al fillet material if the glass (or carbon) is to be applied whilst the flox= is still wet.

Scott Krueger
Sky2high@aol.com
LNC2 N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL (KARR)

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