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Step 13Curing Oven
I'm getting sick of waiting for epoxy to cure. If it takes a day for epoxy to cure and the project has 25 steps and you randomly miss days due to job, family, and other distractions, how long will the project take? Forever damn it!! Joshua Slocum (author of "Sailing Alone Around the World") built a yacht 100 years ago with a hammer, saw, and nails in less time than it takes us now with robots and laser beams.
To make the epoxy cure faster I built a curing oven from a big plywood packing crate. I threw a pair of chairs on their sides inside this box to serve as a shelf to hold the surfboard up. Two hot air guns blow hot air into the box, one from each side. Later I added a third. I clamped the lid on with homemade clamps and taped the lid to stop air leaks. To check the temperature I put my hand on the lid. It gets up to about 100 degrees inside.
To make the epoxy cure faster I built a curing oven from a big plywood packing crate. I threw a pair of chairs on their sides inside this box to serve as a shelf to hold the surfboard up. Two hot air guns blow hot air into the box, one from each side. Later I added a third. I clamped the lid on with homemade clamps and taped the lid to stop air leaks. To check the temperature I put my hand on the lid. It gets up to about 100 degrees inside.
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A hundred degrees what, Celsius , Fahrenheit, Réaumur, Rankine or Kelvin ?
Frankly, I guess you mean Celsius or Fahrenheit (which is still quite a difference), for something as global as a web page, it would be useful if you mention the unit.
Louis.