Applied rocket science to home improvement.
The reason my bathroom failed was construction tech. I have eliminated the epic failure. The toilet had been "Repaired" at some point in it's life. I could have just bought a new toilet bowl, but I'm broke like a joke, and why end up with something that is designed to break even if it is new. To heck with that. I improved the broken thing by getting rid of the garbage the folks that sold me the house used to glue it together, then joined it with JB Weld and CF, FG, milled Kevlar and milled CF and FG. That was going to be appropriate, but I then gave it a good sanding to the proper dimensions, and a really sweet layer of the 9oz. glass which is quickly becoming a weight that may have some really cool uses for my sub-level anything rockets. Even the Kevlar, which looks like a bad idea when you add it to a batch of any epoxy, sands away just fine so far with BSI 20 and 15 minute, JB Weld and JB Kwik, and PC Superpoxy. I make batches under 1 ounce, and usually near around the half oz. mark, so you know what scale I'm working at, but the wet out batch for the glass layer on this toilet was 15 cc as measured in a small cup. There was excess epoxy, that I padded off with an old sock. I expect the CF to soak up a little more, so I'll just make a 20 cc batch to be safe, and since this layer will want to be basically a finish layer, I'll only use the milled glass and a little milled Carbon.
The CF needs a top coat and wet out, but I have found that when I want to apply it to 3D objects, it is best to set a layer of 9oz. Thayercraft glass cloth with epoxy containing milled Carbon, Glass and Kevlar, from RobMartinez702.
The 9oz. FG and 6oz. CF cloth was generously given to me by cavecentral, and it is now a knowable fabric.
(Back to Rob):
He sent me some samples of the stuff he is selling now, and I have been incorporating them into every epoxy I ever use.
I have not made any "Technical Evaluations", but I know I'm going to become a paying customer.
I can do JB Weld better than JB Weld, and PC Superpoxy becomes magical too, and the BSI 20 minute stuff sets up nice and fast. It turns all the epoxies to magical substances, and I even made a handle for a small claw hammer that I will be using extensively to build birdhouses. These milled fibers are amazing! The carbon turns the epoxy black, so you can use one layer of glass cloth under one layer of CF for economy.
It makes the CF tack on real nice too when you press it on before adding it's wet out of epoxy. Know I can properly adhere CF to anything, and know that it has a joint that is consisting of the matter it and the substrate are made of, and not just epoxy.
Thanks RobMartinez702!
How appropriate that I made you that set of gussets for your Sparrow. I can do them a whole lot nicer now, thanks to you giving me the opportunity to work with your products!!! I will get around to using them on rockets when my home repairs are complete, but they are good for everything!
ETA: It looks good, but I'm going to let it cure overnight.