Handy Tricks Six

Step 31 Car = Solar Oven to Cure Epoxy

Here in sunny NorCal, the weather is perfect all the time, which means it's slightly too chilly for epoxy to kick off. So after the epoxy gets tacky I put the parts in a hot car in the sun with the windows closed.
It gets all toasty inside and the part is ready for the clamps to come off in no time.
I try not to breathe the fumes in the car when I take the parts out, and I open the windows for a bit before driving anywhere.

In these pictures I'm curing a rudder, a couple of laminated booms and a broken baseball bat.

Comments

[kill-a-watt]

I'm currently drying out flooded electronics in my car. Wash unpowered electronics off with fresh water and dry completely in a car in the sun with a window cracked. This should also work well when making jerky or dried fruit, although you should probably figure out some how to screen the open window to keep out bugs. Also, drying apples and curing epoxy at the same time is likely a no-no.

[karsten.hain]

Happy to see an eco-consciouss cavalier here! 90% as good a gas mileage as a toyota prius (when driving hypermile style) with 0% of the waste of buying a new car when your old one was serviceable!