refrigerated resins??

[StellarChip]

I ran into a repair tech yesterday who told me he has a chemist that formulates his resins. His resins need to be refrigerated and will begin to cure if they reache room tempature. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

[freightshaker]

Did he have some bread handy to serve with that baloney? :eusa_danc

Seriously, though. What little I know, that does sound a little suspicious. Probably trying to make you think that he has some sort of "leg up" on you.

I would guess that having resins custom formulated would be prohibitively expensive for a small operation. Just a guess.

[Brent Deines]

Modern windshield resin formulations have made this practice obsolete as windshield repair resins are no cured primarily by ultraviolet light, and the process is sped up by removing the air which is why curing tabs are used. Heat has very little to do with the curing process of most modern windshield repair resins.

From a practical standpoint this would mean that you would need to keep a cooler or refrigerator with you as you travel from job to job, and could not simply keep your resin in your toolbox with the rest of your supplies. That would be inconvenient at best. My guess is that you will also find that the shelf life of this product is much less than that of any windshield repair resin sold by a major manufacturer or supplier.

[mrchip]

when I started out in the eighties I used an aerobloic chemical from the Kier system..small bottles that you added a catylest and thinner when you came to your first repair...chemical would get a yellowish color and at that point you would put the bottle in a cooler with ice to slow down the hardening of the chemical..you would have about 8 hours before it would turn clear and could not use...by the next morning whatever was left was rock hard...there were some reasons for this chemical but glad to have uv cured chemical