Aloha and Welcome to my small speck of cyberspace! Dec 8, 2010 is the birth date of my blog. Never had one before, but my son encouraged me to have one, and it seemed like a good way to at least keep a log of my RC airplane building and flying. With the initial design kicked off by my son, I'll carry on from here and have fun with it. Now that I have it, I will use it to also keep track of my oil painting efforts, and any other ideas, hobbies, travels, or whatever else that come up. LIFE IS GOOD!

Update on 02/25/2011. It's been a few months since I began this blog, and I am enjoying creating and having it! I like documenting the things I have done in my hobbies, and sharing with my small family. I think Jer and Tad actually view it fairly regularly, as a means to see what I've been up to lately. At worst, it serves as a reference for my own use.

Update on 12/22/2011. This blog stuff is habit forming. My blog is a year old now, and I make an entry about every other day or so as that seems to be the frequency of doing something in one of my hobbies. Like my hobbies, this blog is a lot of fun, and it has become in itself another hobby that I enjoy.

Years are flying by...update on 01/11/2013. Still enjoying maintaining this blog even though hardly anyone sees it. I don't advertise it anywhere or to anyone, and it is mainly just a way for me to keep my own notes and thoughts on my flying, painting, and cars. If a stranger happens upon it, I think it is by pressing NEXT at the top of the current blog they are visiting, lol. It's a great device for me.

August 2014: still here! Took up flying RC helicopters one year ago and got hooked. Had flown micro Helis up to then, but got serious with 450 size for a couple months, then bought the Goblin 500 and Gaui X5 . Also got my Boxster in April 2013. Most importantly, Ariel was born 12/02/12 followed by Skylar 07/20/13, and they are little beacons of joy in our lives. Life is indeed good!!!

Friday, February 4, 2011

Rejuvenation of Resin

I had a bottle of the resin half of the 2 part epoxy (30 minute) go bad once before.  It looked like honey crystalizing.  Tower gave me a new 2 part epoxy resin to replace it about 7 months ago.  Recently I noticed the same thing was happening to the resin half yet again.   It has not happened to my 6 minute epoxy nor the slow curing finishing resin.  WEIRD that it's happening again.  It made me second guess how I handle or store my epoxies but why would it happen to just the 30 minute but not the 6 minute or finishing epoxy resins?  I don't have the answer, but I remember seeing on RCU that guys have heated up the resin in the microwave to renew it.  With nothing to lose, I tried it myself.  IT WORKS!  Amazingly, just 10 seconds in the microwave turned the resin very thin, and in fact when I used it, it set up way faster than normal.  Hours later now, it is not overly thin anymore and it set up normally.  There are no crystals yet.  Looks like I won't have to complain to Tower about their epoxy again, lol.
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  1. TCFebruary 5, 2011 at 1:31 PM

    Good idear. Next time I wont throw mine away! Wah!

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