First test of the epoxy

When Wim was here last night we also tried out gluing sheets of foam together with the epoxy from the Univeral Hovercraft Kit.

 


The epoxy provided is System Three two part epoxy.  We started out by getting the pumps setup.  Which is mostly inserting the right length tube at the end to get to the bottom of the bottle.  For the smaller one we had to cut one off by a few inches.

 

And few added some secondary containment shortly after deploying them. Since epoxy often can lead to a mess.

With the epoxy mixed we were ready to glue things together.  

We started with wax paper on the ground and layed down the 3 sheets of freshly cut foam with the new knife.  (The pattern I showed previously.  We cut a 3rd copy with the new knife in addition to the two previous ones I had cut. ) 

The very precise cuts were able to be glued on the sides well, but the cuts from previous iterations ended up with a noteable gap which the straight epoxy could not fill.  

 We built up three full layers all at once.  Just wetting the surface with epoxy seems to have done well.  We wetted the sides as well but I don't think it is holding much.

We left it to cure last night with a few weights on top.

 

This morning I took a quick peek before heading to work. It is amazingly solid but still super light.  

The first gluelam foam test

I'll look more closely as the result tomorrow, especially at the joints that I don't think are glued at all, but with the lamination it doesn't seem to matter much.