New repair tool for me

[urbestbuys]

Yesterday, I was repairing a chip and my seal covered the entire break, so I could not see it at all. I was working under a hood and the vehicle was facing away from the sun. I needed some sort of a light and I didn't think a flash light would work. My kit has 2 inspection mirrors and I was already using one on the break so I took the other one and reflected the sun light into my work mirror. It worked great but do this only under a hood.
This may be an old trick that I did not know about, but I know it now.

[Mr Bill]

Reflected sunlight will cause the resin to cure.

[urbestbuys]

It's true that reflected sunlight will cure the resin but if you are working under a hood with both mirrors as I was the hood has taken the RV out. Right?

[urbestbuys]

Sorry about the last reply. I said RV and should have said UV. I have RV on the brain since I am loading my RV for a working trip.

[screenman]

Not sure what you mean by hood, but if you could direct light from the outside then you were also directing UV, unless the light came through a window with a UV barrier. Now this might have been a very small amount of UV but it would still be there. This to any new guys, do not for one minute assume that because you are working in the shade that there is no UV about. One of the things I very often hear is, I can do a bullseye but do not have much luck with star breaks. This is because most guys over here do not use any UV protection and the resin sets before it gets to the end of the leg, they can do a bullseye because it fill so quickly.

Little test, apologies to everyone who has seen me write this one before. Put a vehicle in the shade, under a tree, dark side of a building any where as long as it is in the shade. Place a small drop of pit fill on the glass, then tab over the top and leave a while, you will see it sets very quickly. Imagine this in a starbreak and you can see the problems.

[urbestbuys]

I suppose my reference to a hood is Texas talk for an UV dome.