Question

[ToddMR]

Bought 1 gallon of Silmar 41 and want to split 1/2 of it with someone. Is it plausible to use a 1 qt castin craft can and clean it out somehow and fill it up? Or is there something else we can use? I don't know if a windshield wiper fluid bottle is high grade enough to not be eaten by PR. Any thoughts on how to approach?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Sylvanite]

A clean metal or HDPE container will hold polyester resin. A friend of mine in the fiberglass business dispenses it into empty milk jugs. He washes them out and then rinses with acetone to make sure all residual water is removed. I have a gallon of vinylester resin in a milk jug sitting in my garage right now.

Regards,
Eric

 

[NewLondon88]

I have a half gallon here in plastic Snapple bottles.. :biggrin:

 

[Craftdiggity]

I use mason jars for my resin.

 

[Richard Gibson]

small gasoline container

 

[its_virgil]

Do they make the polyresin smell like snapple?:biggrin::biggrin:
Do a good gturn daily!
don

I have a half gallon here in plastic Snapple bottles.. :biggrin:

 

[Brooks803]

small gasoline container

Copycat! :cat:

:tongue::biggrin:

 

[Richard Gibson]

small gasoline container

Copycat! :cat:

:tongue::biggrin:

No reason to change perfection. I learned from the greatest. :biggrin:

 

[ToddMR]

I thought about a gasoline container, but not sure how to find one so small. I figured if a container can hold gasoline it could hold resin. And the resin is measured by actual size in oz not weight right?

 

[NewLondon88]

Do they make the polyresin smell like snapple?:biggrin::biggrin:

mmmmm .. polyresin. the best stuff on earth!

 

[PenMan1]

Yellow milk jugs work just fine, AND they have side handles making them extremely easy to pour without all the mess!

I prefer something that blocks UV as it is almost as bad as heat for PR.

 

[Wood Butcher]

Just go to Lowes and but new, empty metal paint cans in whatever size you need. They're pretty inexpensive too
WB

 

[Dudley Young]

The standard milk jugs will not leak, but you can still smell the fumes real strong. Look what it did to a Styrofoam cooler. Just the fumes did this to the cooler. I have COPD. You can imagine what I went through until I figured it out.

 

[MesquiteMan]

The standard milk jugs will not leak, but you can still smell the fumes real strong. Look what it did to a Styrofoam cooler. Just the fumes did this to the cooler. I have COPD. You can imagine what I went through until I figured it out.

If you have COPD, why the heck are you working with something like PR? No offense intended.