New builder and a question about Epoxy Temperatures
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:50 am
Hi all:
My father-in-law (Terry) and I are going to build a Pocketship this winter (We'll share this single account for posting to this forum), hoping to have it ready to sail next fall. Both of us have very minimal sailing experience, and zero boat building experience, but we are both competent carpenters and Terry is a skilled finish carpenter. We've purchased the plans and are going to order either a full or partial kit this month.
Our shop (in Anchorage, AK) has a wood stove as the primary heat and we need to install a secondary heat source. Our question is, how warm do we need the secondary heater to maintain the shop. Reading the manual, it looks like listed cure times assume a shop temperature of 70°F. If our shop has a working temperature above 70°F, but has a standby temp of 55°F will that simply require a longer cure time, or do we risk irreversibly damaging the epoxy/fiberglass composite?
Thanks,
Dan R.
My father-in-law (Terry) and I are going to build a Pocketship this winter (We'll share this single account for posting to this forum), hoping to have it ready to sail next fall. Both of us have very minimal sailing experience, and zero boat building experience, but we are both competent carpenters and Terry is a skilled finish carpenter. We've purchased the plans and are going to order either a full or partial kit this month.
Our shop (in Anchorage, AK) has a wood stove as the primary heat and we need to install a secondary heat source. Our question is, how warm do we need the secondary heater to maintain the shop. Reading the manual, it looks like listed cure times assume a shop temperature of 70°F. If our shop has a working temperature above 70°F, but has a standby temp of 55°F will that simply require a longer cure time, or do we risk irreversibly damaging the epoxy/fiberglass composite?
Thanks,
Dan R.