Cheap Epoxy?

[Karl A. Hilbert]

US Composites is advertising slow hardening thin epoxy kits 2:1 (gallon of resin & 1/2 gallon hardener) for $59.00. :eek: Anyone have experience with these products?

http://www.uscomposites.com/epoxy.html

[JBreeze]

Hi,

I haven't tried US composites yet, but I'm very tempted....

Check the archives at this site....some have used it on Kayaks:
http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/Building/index.cgi

[Karl A. Hilbert]

Thanks JBreeze, that's the kind of info I was looking for!

[Spokaloo]

Im using www.bateau.com (http://www.bateau.com) marinepoxy at $66/gal, Ive been VERY happy with it, prefer it to West System.

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[glenallen]

I've used US Composites 635 Thin Epoxy with Slow Hardener on a bunch of strip kayaks. Works great every time with no surprises.
If you have questions, call them up and ask.

[George Roberts]

One of the more important issues is blush.

The slow hardener is non-blushing (good). The others are blushing (bad).

[cs]

Maybe I've just had bad luck but I've used US Composites and it didn't work well for me.

I built a cheap canoe with it and the unthickned epoxy never kicked 100%. Maybe it was a bad batch but none of the batches out of those containers kicked 100%.

My 2 cents.

Chad