The WEST SYSTEM® Technical Team will be running a series of live epoxy demonstrations on its stand (J401, Ocean Hall) at the Southampton International Boat Show, showing visitors how to get the most from its epoxy products. The Show takes place from 10th to the 19th September. The Technical Team will be on hand throughout the Show to answer ... WEST SYSTEM Technical Team supports boat owners at Southampton International Boat Show More
Oarsome Chance, the Gosport based charity, has been using WEST SYSTEM epoxy® to aid in a classic engine refit. It’s ‘fixing-up’ the lifeboat which was used in the award-winning documentary Life After Pi. The short film told the story of how a visual effects company won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking work on the ... Life After Pi lifeboat refit More
If you follow the M4 west as far as it goes, you’ll arrive in the small Welsh village of Crosshands, home to a ‘Panzerkampfwagen VI’ (more commonly known as the Tiger 1 tank). Among other materials local resident Mark Milward is using WEST SYSTEM® epoxy to build a half semi-scale model of the much feared, heavily armoured ... Man builds tank with WEST SYSTEM epoxy More
Wingspread, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed residence near Racine, Wisconsin, was in desperate need of stabilisation, writes Brian Knight. The roof and side walls were showing movement and cracks caused by extreme snow loads and previous remodelling. Because this house is on the USA’s National Register of Historic Buildings (NRHB), the owners and architects were restricted ... The Structural Repair of Wingspread More
This is the extension which is currently being built at Wessex Resins & Adhesives factory in Romsey, Hampshire. It’s due to fully complete this September, a year after ground was broken. “It’s been built to house all of our manufacturing and production,” says Sam Oliver. “Because it’s a purpose-built facility, we are even more confident ... Wessex Resins extends manufacturing premises More
The following PRO-SET epoxy systems have been approved by DNV GL for use on ships, yachts and as ‘laminating resin for construction of laminates made of fibre reinforced plastics’: INF-114 Infusion Resin with INF-210 Fast, INF-211 Medium, INF-212 Slow and INF-213 Extra Slow Hardeners. LAM-125 Low Viscosity Laminating Resin with LAM-224 Fast, LAM-226 Medium, LAM-229 ... PRO-SET® epoxies and WEST SYSTEM® resin and hardener combinations gain approvals More
We’re all eagerly anticipating the reopening of retail outlets. In the meantime, if you’re looking to stock up on your favourite epoxy brands, here are some WEST SYSTEM®, PRO-SET® and Entropy Resins® epoxy stockists who we know are currently open. Don’t forget that we offer support either by voice or mail. Our technical team is ... Chandleries currently open (June 2020) More
Looking for a great home project? If you’ve ever fancied a bar in your house, check out this beauty built by Paul Luffman. He’s been collecting bottle tops since last summer (and bought some additional ones) with this exact purpose in mind after being inspired by other makers’ viral videos. Made using Entropy Resins® CCR ... Making a bottle-top bar using Entropy Resins Clear Casting Epoxy More
Brad Rochfort is a garage shaper who takes the ultimate care with his boards. “People must be happy if they have to wait for a board.” The fact that people are willing to wait for months attests to the quality of his product. Created lovingly in Newquay, Cornwall using the finest bio-based Entropy Resins® with ... How Does Rochfort Customs Create Boards Using Entropy Resins®? More
Nick Zammeti is well known in the world of creatives for making weird and wonderful experiments like his flux capacitor with Entropy Resins® Epoxy. In one of his most recent videos, he experiments with using living botanical matter, encasing it in epoxy. Nick can be seen pushing the boundaries by hair spraying the dandelion prior ... Using plants, like dandelions, in ‘resin-art’ (encasing in epoxy) More
A NOVA 2 rocket being developed by Starchaser is within ten months of its first launch. This one-seater rocket is a significant step towards future plans which include a rocket capable of taking two passengers with the pilot. This uniquely British project is being built in Hyde, Cheshire with WEST SYSTEM® epoxy and glass fibre ... WEST SYSTEM epoxy set to go sub-orbital More
This is the Palmier Club on the beach of Pampelonne in Saint-Tropez. The roof’s built by Monfrino Marine Charpente (with products supplied by Directeck), it’s an incredible creation, stunning inside and out. Its design is said to be reminiscent of waves. The bonded curved roof was made with WEST SYSTEM® 105 Epoxy Resin and 205 ... Stunning roof built for beach club on French Riviera More
Dee (David) Caldwell has spent his lockdown creating bullet coat racks. Using locally sourced WW2 bullets he’s collected at Medmerry, West Sussex, and wood from a cedar planted by Capability Brown in 1750, he’s started a new business in his garden workshop. Dee’s enterprise began six weeks ago when his wife Penny suggested he use ... WEST SYSTEM® 104 Junior Pack used to create ‘bullet’ coat racks More
RS Electric Boats, the sister company to RS Sailing, unveiled its electric RIB earlier this year, a boat that’s said to be the highest level of sustainable construction of any boat in its sector. Constructed with sustainability as its primary focus alongside zero emissions, Pulse58 is destined to challenge habits, spark passion amongst its users ... Electric boat’s sustainable construction More
Wessex Resins is delighted to announce it has improved and updated the WEST SYSTEM® 105-K Glass Fibre Boat Repair Kit. The kit comprises everything needed to fix minor cracks, holes and punctures as well as refit and replace hardware on a boat. The WEST SYSTEM 105-K Glass Fibre Boat Repair Kit contains: · 250g WEST ... WEST SYSTEM 105-K Glass Fibre Boat Repair Kit updated More
Completing the hull and making a spinnaker chute Keen to build himself a small sailing dinghy, retired land surveyor Steve Goodchild turned his spare room into a workshop and began to assemble a 16ft Stornoway design using the strip plank method. The idea was that ‘Barnacle’ would be capable of dinghy ‘cruising’, a popular pastime ... Building a Stornoway 16 – Part 3 More
Wessex Resins and Adhesives is delighted to announce it has donated 1 per cent of its annual turnover for the ENTROPY RESINS® product range to Protect Our Winters UK. This is part of the company’s commitment to 1% for the Planet, a global movement inspiring businesses and individuals to support environmental solutions through annual membership ... Wessex Resins joins 1% for the Planet and donates to Protect Our Winters UK More
It’s fair to say that Nick Zammeti makes weird and wonderful products. From a bowl full of corks to an amazing floating river table flowing with coloured pencils, he’s a man on a creative mission. “People send me all sorts of stuff to stick in epoxy,” he says. “I once made a bowl with tomato ketchup in epoxy. ... Getting Creative with Epoxy More
Epoxy’s Cure Stages What is the difference between working time, pot life and cure time? All three are slightly different. Working time, also called open time, is the amount of time epoxy remains liquid between when you mix the resin and hardener and when it begins to gel. During working time, the epoxy remains workable ... Epoxy basics More
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Making the cedar strips and mast As mentioned in part one of this series, to build the ideal boat with which to join the Dinghy Cruising Association, retired land surveyor Steve Goodchild bought the plans from designer Paul Fisher and assembled the ‘strongback’ jig on which ‘Barnacle’s’ hull would be laid up. He then attended ... Building a Stornoway 16 – Part 2 More
We’re offering free repair demonstrations on our stand C2 (Hall Three) at the RYA Dinghy Show, Alexandra Palace, 29th Feb to 1st March 2020. For racers and enthusiasts, for those with wooden or composite boats, epoxy provides a straightforward and effective way to make DIY minor repairs. A such the demonstrations offer expert advice about fixing all-to-common problems from a season’s bumps and ... Come and see our ‘how to use epoxy’ demonstrations, at the RYA Dinghy Show More
Nick Zammeti is a woodturner, artist and maker of all sorts of fantastic creations. He’s been working with Entropy Resins® for a while as he says it’s so much better for the environment than other epoxies. We agree! In this video he makes a Tesseract Flux Capacitor, inspired by Back to the Future. More
