REFLECTOR: Hardening Hardener
Brooke Wolf
bwolf1 at tds.net
Sat Jul 25 16:37:32 CDT 2009
I know this has been addressed before on this forum, but I am having
a problem with hardening hardener.
All of my hardener is less than 2 years old. It is from the Velocity
Factory. I keep some hardener in a 85 deg box. I have been away from
my project for 3-4 months. Now, I noticed that it is getting a little
thick, somewhat like a gooey tar. I tried heating it by putting the
gallon jug (with less than a quart of hardener in it) in water at 150
deg. I let the hardener get to about 130 deg for about 15 minutes.
The heating certainly made it more viscous, but as it cooled it got a
little thick again.....but not as thick as before. I don't have much
confidence in the heating trick. What did I do wrong?
Just for grins, I checked on two jugs of hardener which have been
sitting in my basement for 2 years. The temp down there stays a
pretty constant 70 deg. Much to my chagrin, both jugs seem to have
solidified into a crystalline mush. Any ideas?!!
Brooke
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