What do you guys suggest using thinning out VER?
Can i just use styrene?
Also I have been thinning out PER with acetone, can you put too much and effect the cure of the resin??
first ? I would have is to ask why would you need to thin it out, its probably the thinnest resin you can get.
you can deffinately use to much styrene and acetone to thin out resins. You’ll know when the resin doesn’t cure all the way or stays in a kinda rubbery state.
Acetone will slow down the cure time.
I actually used this technique when my boss refused to let me use slow hardner on a very large part. He insisted on fast hardner (which also increases the viscosity).
Worked perfect. Even funnier (to me at least) is that the thinned parts looked awesome and the fast hardner parts were obviously worse and had some serious voids in them.
When the class does some parts, we spray the gel coat, let it B stage, then lay several layers in and thin the resin to wet thru all of them at once in an open molding technique.
i have some resin that I have been using that is RTM resin which is about twice as thin as the VER I am using. I am infusing some thick layers and need to thin it out. I thin out my PER all the time with styrene just wondering if that would work with the VER
Above you state " twice as THIN", but I think you meant to say "twice as thick "??
Thinning PER is not a delecate mix. But as you go UP the chain of chemistry as with VER, the addition of a carrier like Styrene may be tricky so as not to set off a delay or premature reaction chemically.
Lord knows ,you don’t want to ruin the whole Infusion with a ZERO cure part.Doh !
If there is a label on the container of the RTM resin…I would at least attempt to contact them for their experiance with their blend.
What have you got to lose by calling, rather the alternative?
…V’
I want to thin the ver not the RTM resin, The RTM resin I am using is very close to water in thinness. Infuses almost too fast lol. I will call the VER manufacture and see what they suggest to thin it with
I thin VER with styrene up to 10% with no problems.
perfect that is what i needed to know
i just tried thinning out VER resin with ABOSOLV ( a proprietary mix of solvents for epoxies and other ‘liquid polymers’) at 10% by volume and so far it seems to have cured just fine. see www.ABATRON.com