Casting an epoxy resin table?
Hello everyone
I have a few questions regarding casting an epoxy resin table.
If I pour the table here and want a thin layer of epoxy on the top for protection, should I pour it at the same time as the gap or afterward? Do I need to use a UV-resistant epoxy (the table is for penetration)? What kind of resin do you recommend? The pour height should be 3 cm, and I would prefer a transparent epoxy. Is there anything else extremely important to keep in mind when pouring? This is my first time doing this.
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If you’ve never worked with epoxy resin before and then you want to start with a table, that’s 90 percent in your pants.
In the pants, in the worst case, you’re messing up your entire workshop, and you’re spying a lot of money, because you either have to throw everything away, or work so much, and you don’t know how you can do that, that you’re probably going to land in the mental hospital because the best result is still crap.
Without basic knowledge, you can always come to a point where you don’t know what to do.
In the YT videos everything always looks so easy, but this is due to the good videos that they know what they are doing.
UV resistant resin usually yellows little to nothing.
Whether the gap has to be poured separately or in one depends on the casting height of the resin. However, it is easier to pour both separately, so you can get a few bubbles out again if you work them in.
It is important to meet the mixing ratio exactly, otherwise it can happen that it does not cure properly.
Appropriate protective clothing. Long sleeves, nitril gloves, breathing mask against vapours (I my A2P2 would have to be that)
And of course we do NOT do this in our house. The exhaust gases/damps are highly toxic and have lost nothing in the living room. Even after drying, the piece should be properly ventilated for a few days.
After mixing the two components, you can leave the resin still for 1-2 minutes. The majority of the air bubbles are getting out. Make sure that you humble the stirring rod as much as possible on the bottom of the vessel, mix high-risk movements with pure.
With fire you can go over the resin again when you have poured to get the air out.