The costs quickly add up, don\\\'t they?

Although the mini scales are extremely useful for very small quantities (I have one similar to yours, covered in cling film to stop it getting gunged up) I have found that the West pump dispensers are far quicker and easier to use most of the time.  I always use the pumps for anything more than half a yogurt cup full of resin, but tend to use the scale for smaller mixes, as the pumps can have a slight dead space on the first stroke.

West changed the design of the pumps relatively recently and the new ones (with the thinner bore pickup pipe) seem to be significantly better that the old ones that were made to fit the plastic resin containers.

You may want to look at getting some 206 hardener in this warm weather.  I nearly had a small pot of resin catch fire last weekend when the 205 fast hardener caused it to cure in around 5 minutes (it was probably around 28 to 30 deg C in my workshop at the time, though).

Jeremy

Cut scarfs after much thought and cogitation and checks still managed to cut two the wrong way round-this is easy to do be careful! I am now going to scarf pices on to wrong ones and then scarf them again the opposite side!

Update on material costs:

After working out what I really need as to what I would like, I returned to two suppliers and eventually achieved the following deal, which I have now ordered:

1 C-pack West system epoxy, 30Kg, standard hardner.
750 grams West system micro fibres.
2 rolla of 50metre by 75mm wide 170gram fibre glass tape
5 litres of Acetone
10 metre of 170 gram glass cloth 762mm wide.

all for the magnificent sum of £364 in vat and delivery and three west squeegees thrown in-good vlaue I think.

Phil

Thanks Jeremy,
I should have checked Wikepaedia!
quote \\\"[quote author= Vinegar is an excellent solvent for cleaning epoxy resin and hardener, even after the epoxy has begun to hardendate=1280567433]

What does industrial vinegar mean 20% acetic?

I believe old pickle vinegar is 18% so I am starting to save that as well as yogurt pts and plastic milk bottles, scrap ply for mixing sticks etc.


Phil




Material costs resins etc.

I have researched material costs on the internet and have the following which seem competitive, I have quoted for a C pack of West System resin and hardner even though Matt reccomends 3 B packs, as a first time builder I expect to use more resin than normal, the Cpack isn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t that much more cost than 3 Bpacks and there is nearly twice the resin quantity and also I have boatbuilder friends in Heybridge who I am sure I can sell any excess I have at this price !
Shipping is 16£, these prices need vAT adding at 17.5% I have also purchased a mini scale on eBAY 1000grams by 0.1 gram at £9.
Costs:

Product Quantity Sub Total:

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WEST SYSTEM 403 Microfibres-150g tub
SKU:    £4.88

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WEST SYSTEM Epoxy Resin 105/205 30 Kg - C pack
SKU:    £265.00

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6 oz Glassfibre cloth - 762mm wide-10 - 99 mt
SKU:    £25.50

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Fibreglass Tape - 175g x 75 mm-50m roll
SKU:    £21.30

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1\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" wooden handle brushes-Box of 12
SKU:    £2.95

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1/2\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" wooden handle brushes-Box of 12
SKU:    £2.20

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2\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" wooden handle brushes-Box of 12
SKU:    £4.98

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Latex Gloves 100 Large-Pack of 100
SKU:    £3.99

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Acetone-500 Ml Tin
SKU:    £5.70

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1” 3M Masking Tape-1 roll
SKU:    £8.50

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Syringes-5 Ml
SKU:    £1.10

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Syringes-10 Ml
SKU:    £1.50

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Syringes-50 Ml
SKU:    £2.76

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9 OZ Paper Cup-Bag of 50
SKU:    £3.75

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22 OZ Paper Cup-Bag of 50
SKU:    £4.75

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2kg Bag cloths.
SKU:    £6.95
 
 

 




Sub Total:   £365.81 
Shipping: Calculated During Checkout  £16
Tax:  Calculated During Checkout  vat at 17.5%
 
Total £448.60
Phil