REFLECTOR: Epoxy Dye

Brooke Wolf bwolf1 at tds.net
Tue May 13 11:04:56 CDT 2008


Thanks everybody.  I just ordered some of the past from Jamestown 
distributors.  I'll let you know how it works...Brooke


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juanita Londenberg" <i.fly.too at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Epoxy Dye


> Dyeing the epoxy worked great.  (Got is Marine West --
> it comes in a little tube)  It's of paste/cream
> consistency.
>
> Like Brian said, I used it on the door frames,
> expecially where you would kick and scratch it with
> your shoes.  Then prepped it for painting with black
> paint -- now if we scratch the paint, at least it's
> black underneath.
>
> Juanita
> --- Brian Michalk <michalk at awpi.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes.
>> Juanita used some on the high scratch prone areas,
>> like around the doors.
>>
>> Added black color to the layups.  When finished,
>> painted the door
>> stiffeners black.
>> She should know where to get it.
>>
>> Brooke Wolf wrote:
>> > I like to use epoxy/microballoons for fillets and
>> general filling because of
>> > the light weight of the substance.  However,
>> because of the light color
>> > (almost white) of this mixture, it is very
>> difficult to see air bubbles when
>> > glass is laid on top.  Air bubbles and
>> epoxy/microballoons are about the
>> > same color.
>> >
>> > Flox or Cab-o-sill yield a much darker mixture and
>> consequently it is much
>> > easier to differintiate the light colored air
>> bubbles from dark fill.
>> > But....the fill is heavier.
>> >
>> > I had the brilliant idea that I would solve this
>> conundrum by simply dyeing
>> > the micro with food coloring.  But then I thought
>> food coloring is water
>> > based (I think).  Water and epoxy would probably
>> not do well together!
>> >
>> > That brings me to the question, does anybody know
>> of a dye or some other
>> > method of darkening the epoxy/micro mixture
>> without adding weight?
>> >
>> > Brooke
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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