10 EPOXY Mistakes Beginners Make

I used to work for a construction chemical manufacturer here in the states, and had to mix epoxy resins for field demos regularly. John's right about keeping your tools clean. One trick I used was I kept a 5 gallon pail with a reusable lid, that had ~2 gallons of play sand in the bottom and about a gallon and a half of acetone. There should be enough acetone in the mixture to have the top of the play sand ~2 inches below the top of the acetone when fully settled. Once you are done mixing any epoxy with a drill mounted mixing paddle, keep the paddle in the drill, dunk the paddle into the sand / acetone mix and run the paddle in the sand for ~45-60 seconds in both forward and reverse and you will get a clean paddle with little effort.

Way to stay positive John, instead of sulking, you came back strong and ripped out a video to save the rest of us from making the same mistakes, you are the man, thank you sir.

This is awesome. We actually recommend the opposite of your #5 , though. WE say NOT to scrape the sides bc you might leave behind unmixed Part A or B. When you dump that out - the TOP of your project becomes anything UNMIXED that you scraped out of the bucket. It's now the sticky, uncured top parts and might be little areas, but generally is a pain and not what you want. So we suggest you DO pour your mixed resin into a new cup once combined. This leaves behind any unmixed resin in that first cup and now Cup 2 is only combined resin. The unmixed parts remain in Cup 1. We say this because we get this problem OVER AND OVER again. Why little spots of uncured resin on my piece? That's why!

This is proffessional tradesman! Even tools hanging on the wall make perfect square! Pleasure to watch

Great video John. Experience is a wonderful thing. Humility is a virtue my friend. Good on ya.

love the show you make it easy to learn things that you need to know for projects.

Great info. I’ve been pouring resin for nearly 20 years. To this day it’s a bit stressful and unpredictable. These guidelines will save users a ton of headache.

New watcher and want to get into making tables w epoxy and wood. Love your videos, keeping doing what your doing!

Hi from Australia John & Sam. I've been pouring epoxy since 1975 in the communications industry and it definitely is a Science. It ws used to fill containers where cable was terminated ( just like filling empty beer cans). Always the same type and always handled like a medical clinic would handle blood in syringes. Great message and great pour projects. Stay Safe!

Thanks for the info. I was planning on doing a small side table for practice. I'll be sure get the proper stuff to make a mold.

Thanks for the tips, good luck with the cleanup!!

Happy I found you channel, awesome projects and some really good tips. I'm wanting to start experimenting with epoxy with my daughter this summer so we are enjoying learning on youtube.

I love this stuff. I like the double cup method of stirring.

This should be a channel on how to do a YouTube tutorial video. Just to the point and clear! Just about to mess around with epoxy for first time and these videos are spot on!

Thanks for the clear info. I’ve been wanting to do a smaller epoxy pour on a box lid. I’ll be sure to take this to heart and try not to be cheap about it.

Really enjoyed this video John - very informative but still a little quirky to match your personality. Nice edit, nice content. Thanks for sharing with us.

Thank you for the info. Great video! I'm just a beginner and your video helps me a lot.

I once worked as a fiberglass laminator here in the U.K. Mostly making boat hulls. Was a "shoddy" operation in an old RAF storage shed. We had a curing room that was just a section in the corner lined with plastic sheeting with a propane heater and a thermometer. Was great overtime sat for 24hrs turning the heater on and off😂

Thank you for the vids, I really learn a lot and am always amazed, great work

John we love you, take care of yourself.