At 07:36 AM 6/15/00 -0700, Bill Hansen wrote: >John - and others - RE: additives to epoxy for repairs, and especially for >repairing cracks. If abrasion resistence is the only criterion, an aluminum >additive is available. For practical purposes, epoxy thickened with Cabosil >silica hardens to an almost stone-like consistency and has very high >heat-of-deformation properties. But - it's very difficult to sand. > Bill, When you are repairing fro abrasion resistance, would not the quality "very difficult to sand" be just what you want? I would think something that was hard to sand would be hard to wear away. I guess the trick is to apply it in a manner that requires no post cure work. Bill *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jun 15 2000 - 07:44:09 PDT
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