Resin Shelf Life

[Jim]

Has anyone done a mix with out of date resin, and if so did it turn ok?

 

[bassethound]

Not done much with resin Jim but I know it will set eventually on its own without hardener so I reckon It's worth a try!

 

[dontheturner]

I do know, if the resin or hardener happens to have gone hard, stick some water in a saucepan, and pop the polythene containing it into the boiling water, and heat it up, like you would with honey, and it goes thin again, and works a treat.

 

[brody2123]

Mixed results. I've done some in the past to make a test blank when i first started casting and they were ok. But i put a lot of the failures down to inexperience with them. I guess eventually the resin would be a bugger to mix with the catalyst if its quite far past its date.

 

[Buckeye]

If it is still liquid then use it, I have used it when it has been a year old and it still worked ok. I wouldn't try it on a watch part blank as that would be too much work to risk cocking it up, but if it just a colour mix I would use it.

Peter

 

[wm460]

I have used it when it was about 12- 18 month old worked OK, just took a couple days the harden properly.