The garage and workshop build has progressed well and the concrete for the base is arriving on Wednesday.
Work will cease for 3 months after the concrete pour, as Colin has another job that actually makes him some money; however, he'll be back in August to complete the edifice. With luck, and a bit of saving, I will have a workshop and garage for winter.
A quick note on the polyester resin, which arrived yesterday. The mixing is troublesome, as the catalyst ratio is 1-2%, which is almost impossible to measure by weight if making small quantities. It's the same ratio as for silicone, but silicone is invariably made in large quantities.
I tried it on a small piece of cloth using 20gms of resin - it takes ages to cure, but that may simply have been due to an error in the amount of catalyst. One coat either side was certainly not enough to achieve the desired level of stiffness in the cloth. The fact it's colloquially known as casting resin demonstrates it's more for large quantities. Seeing as I usually mix 150gms, twice, for a couple of shades, it may prove OK in the final analysis.
On the plus side there was no allergic reaction whatsoever.
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