Turbo primer mixing by weight

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Does anyone have a mixing by weight formula for the turbo primer? What about epoxy? Sometimes I need to mix a small quantity, and it would be more accurate using the scale.
 
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Does anyone have a mixing by weight formula for the turbo primer? What about epoxy? Sometimes I need to mix a small quantity, and it would be more accurate.
If mixing a small amt. try using a measuring spoon. Perfect accuracy isn't needed. Pretty dang close is good. Use uncoated Dixie cups.
 
Don't have the data anymore texas but what I did awhile back was measure out 4:1 using a mixing stick and two cans on the mixing table (so I knew it was level). Weighed it subtracted for the cans and worked out the math so I knew how much 4 parts of the primer weighed and 1 part of the activator weighed. Pretty simple to do took about 15 minutes. Wish I had the figures for you but they are at my former place of employment and I ain't going back over there anytime soon.:)
 
I'm just being lazy and hoping someone already did the work for me. I'm used to being able to type whatever amount I need and the computer spitting out the exact amounts. I mix an ounce or even less primer quite often and just don't trust mix cups with that small of an amount. I will probably use AAE's method and measure on the scale for future reference. My helper, and I use the term loosely, mixed some on the scale one day while I was at the dentist, and was proud to tell me he mixed it 20g:5g:5g, 4:1:1 just like the label said. I told him it was by volume not weight, and I just got a blank stare back:rolleyes:
 
i can give you rough #'s for epoxy off the top of my head. 200g epoxy to aprox 170g activator. that should be fairly close to 1:1. i figured this out a few years ago and wrote down the exact #'s but i forget. i always mix epoxy on the scale using that ratio.
 
Small 1 oz. pill cups and a bar shot glass works great for small quantities.
 

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i would end up breaking them :( i use wax coated for resins and such and the plastic 16 oz for paint .
 
i buy the waxed cups in bulk . a sleeve of 100 is 12 dollars . easiest way to mix primers or anything else . the 16 oz plastic are about 60 cents but i get free cups at the paint supply and use them until the marks are gone . for small things you cant beat the 3 oz cups for measuring .
 
I've always questioned why shops especially should not be able to have all of the product's weight info, but @Barry simply will not do it. It's totally his right, but it's one of those things that's always been a burr under my saddle. Not being able to be more economical and more accurate because of (not sure what) a few numbskulls that can't handle weighing accurately?
 
shine, i do the same as you with the small cups. for mixes not big enough for a 1qt mixing cup i use clear polypro drinking cups. i got away from the wax cups many years back because of the wax. mixing small amounts of paint in a wax lined cup doesnt sit right with me and i had some fisheye issues many years back when using them. maybe it was the wax, maybe it wasn't. it was just something i started to steer clear of. the 16oz cups i get are same material as the ones made for paint mixing so totally solvent proof and i get a case of 2000 for about $60.

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