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In a message dated 1/5/2002 10:42:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, Steve Colwell writes:

<< A good quality electronic scale with a tare feature to zero the scale with
your mixing cup on it is available for about $100.00 or so.  I keep a sheet
of 1 mil plastic over mine to keep the dribbles off and dispense the resin
and hardener from ...>>

Steve is right.  This method is really easy, accurate and usable with any resin, sealer, or structural adhesive.  Try getting Hysol through your sticky-stuff dispenser!

You do, in fact, need to have a small mouth bottle to dispense the goop into your mixing cup.  It's nothing but frustration to pour it out of a metal one-gallon can.

I've been using the Jeffco with a 25:100 by weight mixture.  I can do that math in my head (let's see ... 40 grams of resin means 10 grams of hardener...)  The Shell-TETA system was harder with an 18.5 to 100 ratio (or something like that) -- I had to have a calculator by the scale.  Same goes for Hysol with it's oddball mixture ratio.

I wasn't as smart as Steve -- I didn't have the sheet of Saran Wrap over my scale and I now have a sticky, messy scale ... but it still works!

- Rob Wolf

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