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Old 12-26-2008, 10:08 AM
Islandtrader Islandtrader is offline
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Default Re: cold weather epoxy

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Need some advice on working with epoxy in cold. Would you do epoxy work now or wait until it got warmer?
I picked this up of a epoxy sight.

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Below about 50 degrees F the chemical reaction need to cure the epoxy becomes very very slow (or might even almost stop). However, at low temperatures epoxies also become thicker. With many epoxies they become too thick to get out of the container and or to mix easily. Low temperature epoxies usually consist of a 'fast' curing agent, or in other words, an accelerator and accelerated curing agent. These 'fast' curing agents speed up the reaction so that at low temperatures the epoxy will cure at 'normal' time rates. At 'normal' temperatures these fast epoxies would get hard very quickly, probably having a pot life too short to use in most situations.
I would wait until the weather warms, IMHO.
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