Surfing Waves

I recently opened up my purchase of UV resin from December 07 and found out the entire bottle already hardened. I used only about 4oz out of 15, and I was wondering if this is supposed to happen? I kept the bottle in a room which doesn't receive much sunlight and I'm not sure if it just expired, or the sunlight affected it somehow. Anyone have troubles with resin hardening before they're able to use it all?

thought resin wasnt supposed to harden unless you applied catalyst????

isaluteyou wrote:thought resin wasnt supposed to harden unless you applied catalyst????

yeah i thought the same sounds odd to me

It's happened to me, I think it does go off if the air can get to it, just takes a lot longer.

isaluteyou wrote:thought resin wasnt supposed to harden unless you applied catalyst????

By UV resin I guess he means Suncure type stuff, where you dont need catalyst - just UV (sun) exposure.

The thing is, the UV (or catalyst) only speeds up a reaction - it doesnt start it (look in any handy chemistry textbook) so resin left for long enough will go hard anyway.

I guess I'll have to ding my board up more to get my money's worth.

drowningbitbybit wrote:

isaluteyou wrote:thought resin wasnt supposed to harden unless you applied catalyst????

By UV resin I guess he means Suncure type stuff, where you dont need catalyst - just UV (sun) exposure.

The thing is, the UV (or catalyst) only speeds up a reaction - it doesnt start it (look in any handy chemistry textbook) so resin left for long enough will go hard anyway.

Learn something new everyday

i just miss read as always and did not know he was talking about suncure

silly me