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Old March 28th, 2008
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Re: home made fibreglass fins

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Originally Posted by alexrom1207 View Post
Just an idea but adding latex to the resin may make it more flexible. Contractors all add latex to the mortar and grout when they do tile work so that it will have some flex and not crack. I figure this will probably work just as well for resin (that is if you can find a thin enough latex so it will keep the resin really fluid)
I've never built any fins, but I used to experiment a little with building things from fibreglass and carbon fibre composites in my teens, and I want to point out that this will not "work just as well for resin". Mortar and tile grout are both water based cements, while plastic resin (polyester or epoxy) is built around totally different chemistry. Randomly adding water-based latex to it will result in a horrible sticky mess.

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