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Old 05-25-2017, 09:27 AM
RobinHou RobinHou is offline
 
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Default Jeffco Epoxy

I just realized Jeffco is significantly less expensive than West System. ACS 1 gl. Jeffco kit is only $85.50 vs. West 1.2 gl. kit at $137.95

Is there any reason not to use Jeffco?

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Old 05-25-2017, 10:36 AM
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There is more to epoxy than the price - I looked at the JeffCo (Rhino Liner) TDS and it does not have a lot of information. Tensile strength, peal strength, Tg and others are important for various uses on the RV. Practical things like wet out and application ease are good for a nice finished product. It is hard for me to give a good answer.

But, I can say West has very good technical data and tech support. Easy to layup and has good wet out properties, reasonable Tg.

As an alternative, PTM&W is a California supplier of many resins. They have a full line of offerings and also have excellent support and tech data sheets. Aeropoxy is one of their lines that is available for our uses. I have used several PTM&W products and the West Systems. No experience with Jeffco, sorry.

Maybe Jeffco has more information and/or you could get some and let us know how it performs in your tests. Testing is fun.
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Old 05-25-2017, 01:25 PM
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FWIW, Lancair used to recommend Jeffco 1307/3102. My kit is so old that I used Safe-T-Poxy, which hasn't been available for years (decades?). These days I use E-Z Poxy which is advertised as the successor to Safe-T-Poxy. I used West Systems and micro balloons as filler.
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Old 05-25-2017, 02:45 PM
Neal Trombley Neal Trombley is offline
 
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I'm not an epoxy expert but my business is Boat building and working with different composites etc

West is a great company but there are several solid epoxy suppliers out there that in some cases are better than west and yes less money..
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