Well. I stayed up late Saturday night after I got all my stringer pieces cut and fit. I was so excited to get my buckets of epoxy resin and hardener out and throw a coat on all the pieces. Long story short I think my resin is shot. I had it in the bathroom in the barn all winter right next to the heater and I’m not sure if it got moisture in it or if the bucket wasn’t completely sealed and got grinding dust in it or what. It’s a very white thick pancake batter kind of thickness. Wasn’t like that when I got it. So instead of coating all the pieces I figured I would do a couple test pieces and I’m sure glad I did. First mixture I made up was just what I was told to do. 2 to 1 by weight resin to hardener. From Saturday night at 2am to Sunday night at 10pm it never got hard. I fed the batch a blue pill and threw some more hardener at it just to see what it would do. It didn’t lay on nice, still had brush marks, and did eventually get hard. I’m not going to use it. Not worth it. So this coming weekend hopefully I can get a new pal or epoxy and seal the pieces.



“Pancake batter” or....I think I could make a killing going to the sperm bank with this stuff



Had some scrap ply laying around I punched some staples through so I can set the wet pieces on but they won’t stick to the board


The finally hard resin

Did you test fit the engines with the Arnesons before cutting the transom? You may need to cut the stringers to get the motor low enough to be parallel with the drive line and have a respectable drive shaft angle.

Yes and no. I had the motors in and know where the center of the output yoke for the drive shaft was. I also had the Arnesons mocked up very close to where they will end up. I think I will be very close to where it needs to be but if I need to trim the pieces after I glass the stringers I’m not too scared to do so.

Cool! I love a good project!

Interesting. How “hot” is “hot water”? After you warm it up does it become clear and stay clear and it’s good to go from then on or is this a every time before you use it type of situation?

I may give that a whirl, but at the same time I’ve got some much of my time into this project I just want it to be 110% right and just get some new resin.

Thanks for you input Ren

I couldn’t agree more. That point trumps the thought of just the time and effort put into the project being a waste.

Hopefully I will be able to swing through Skater soon and get another bucket... I’ll find something fun to do with this bucket.

I’ll have to give it a try and use it to make some bag boards or something. Thanks for the info I will let ya know how it pans out