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On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 22:41, Jim Adney wrote: > On 13 Jul 2003 at 1:39, Dave Hall wrote: > > > POR-15 doesn't contain styrene and thus cannot melt fiberglass > > > cloth like resin does." > > > > I don't see how styrene "melts" glassfibre. Any insight on this, JJ? > > Luckily glassfibre boats don't melt even though there is styrene in the resin > > used with the glass. > > Yeah, this bothered me, too. There's not much that will attack glass. > The styrene in resin is called micro ballons. It doesn't "melt" the glass, it just fills the weave. If you want to add it to POR-15, you can buy it and add it to the POR. In a pinch, backing soda will do the same thing, it is just heavier. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org