does this FG look funny?

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Topic: does this FG look funny?

Posted By: lilbenny
Subject: does this FG look funny?
Date Posted: April 21, 2005 at 7:28 PM

hi idk if you would consider this my first or second time doing this.. but my FG project im making 2 stealth boxes and im on the second side.. but it looks kind of funny and idk if there are airbubbles or not... but it looks kinda funny can anyone help me out? also if theyre is air bubbles would it matter even if i have 7 layers over it? what do you recomend i do? cuz if this box isnt going to come out nice i might aswell start over instead of piss away more money...
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sorry for th bad pics.. idk my camera is gay and ultra sensative if you move it just the slightest bit... but can you see on the first pic the top is like funny looking...

also when mixing my resin and hardener it like instantly turned to gel type and i use that for a bit so that might of caused some problems.. then the resin and hardener was being gay so i just used resin and now it wont cure for after 3 days... any suggestions? yes i know i prally fcked this up which really pisses me off cuz now im down some more money damniT! please help
Greatly appriciated.
-benjamin

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Posted By: beyondamfm
Date Posted: April 21, 2005 at 7:49 PM

it looks like a portal to hell, dark and gloomey

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Posted By: M&mfabrications
Date Posted: April 21, 2005 at 8:42 PM

If it gelled right away you used way to much hardener. You will be waiting a while for just that resin to dry because it won't harden without the MEKP. I can't see a thing in those pictures.

Posted By: auex
Date Posted: April 21, 2005 at 9:54 PM

Start over, no hardener means it won't harden.

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Posted By: 5150azn
Date Posted: April 22, 2005 at 12:23 PM

Start over... The guy that taught me most of my fg art, was an installer for 310 motoring. He taught me the correct way of counting how many drops of hardner per resin. Then he taught me the "other" way. Just squeese a good stream of hardner into your resin and mix till you see a change in the tint.

With hardner added the resin the mixture turns a darker tint. And that means it's ready to dump on to your fg. The color that I see in the pic looks fine to me just that the layer of unhardened resin may be almost transperent. I wouldn't worry about bubbles unless they are bigger than an 1/2" in diameter.

My advice is not to worry about it hardening too fast. As long as it doesn't harden instantly. Add your hardner watch it thicken a little and just cake it on to the fg.

Then post up your pics :)

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Posted By: lilbenny
Date Posted: April 22, 2005 at 1:17 PM

yeah after i realized it wasnt hardening i put a few drops of hardener will that be ok?

Posted By: 5150azn
Date Posted: April 22, 2005 at 4:47 PM

If it doesn't get hard after 15mins it will never get hard... Start over\find a new girl.

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Posted By: 5150azn
Date Posted: April 22, 2005 at 5:57 PM

LOL If you stare into those pictures they look pretty spooky.

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Posted By: Captanham
Date Posted: April 23, 2005 at 6:16 PM

i've seen people put hardner on afterwords, it's NOT what you want to do, but it works in a bind,, (it saved a dash for a guy that he didn't have the parts to redo) so try that, it may work it may not, no promises on how strong it would be tho, just dabb it on with a paint brush

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