AeroMarine Products Blog

When potting LED lights with our urethane, please clean the lights first.  Often, LEDS have a moisture inhibitor that interferes with the urethane’s curing.  You can use denatured alcohol or soap and water.

We now have high temp epoxy resin for sale!  This epoxy cures by heat and will withstand heat up to the curing temperature.  For example,  if you cure our high temp epoxy at 300F, that is the same temperature it can  handle.  It cures to a dark coffee color, very hard with a durometer of 70 to 75 shore D.  This epoxy works well for encapsulating and coating circuitry, as a high temp adhesive and for conformal circuitry applications.  Check out our webpage www.aeromarineproducts.com/high-temp-epoxy.htm to order.

We have a great new product; Solar1Sil, a clear UV resistant silicone encapsulant. Solar1Sil is a 2 part, platinum cure silicone. It impressed us in our testing with its optical clarity and low viscosity. Solar1Sil works very well for making solar cells or potting electronics. It has a 1:1 mix ratio by volume or by weight. Try it for any application requiring great optical clarity and UV resistance!

Frustrated because your silicone or glass stuck to your silicone rubber mold?  AeroMarine Products can help!  We have a very good mold release spray that releases silicone from silicone or glass or almost anything.  In an emergency, you could use petroleum jelly as a mold release for silicone.

We frequently receive questions about the wisdom of shipping our products during winter.

The only product we ship that might be affected by cold weather during shipping is our Latex Mold Making Rubber.  Over several years we have only had one shipment of latex damaged due to freezing.  We normally ship via UPS ground, and it seems that this method works very well.

If you are extremely concerned about your latex order freezing during shipment you are welcome to call us and request expedited shipping.  Additional charges will be incurred.

None of our other products are affected by cold weather shipping.  Epoxy resins can be shipped in cold weather but should be stored above 60F.

We get a lot of calls as the weather cools regarding resin systems taking longer to cure.  Just about everything we sell is affected by cold weather.  Epoxies and polyurethanes in particular slow down substantially.  Silicones are less affected by cold temperatures.

The best way to deal with cold weather is to apply mild heat to the system you are using.  The “rule of thumb” for epoxies and polyurethanes is this:
For every ten degrees F that you raise or lower the temperature the resulting change in gel/set/cure times changes by half.  For instance, if a resin sets in 30 minutes at 75F then at 55F it will take about 60 minutes.  Conversely,  the same resin would set in 15 minutes at 95F.

In the winter sometimes you just need more patience waiting for resins to cure!

We have made dramatic cuts in our 2# foam prices.  For example, a 2 gallon kit which previously sold for $72 is now priced at $60; A kit consisting of 10 gallons was $260 now sells for $230;  Our smallest kit consisting of 1/2 gallon was $28 now sells for $20.

This sale will extend to the end of 2010, and we may be able to extend it into early next year.

This closed cell pour foam is used for flotation and insulation and meets Coast Guard requirements.

Out latest foam is an 8# density two part polyurethane foam.  The primary usage is for the manufacture of simulated wood picture frames- but it is also useful for making castings, movie props, and as a stiffening and backup material for fiberglass laminates.

We have looked for years for a good shopping cart system that was easy to use and met these requirements:

1. Our customer would never have to choose a login name and password. We avoid sites that make us remember anything or do any unnecessary typing.

2. It must accommodate the ability to factor in shipping weights of multiple packages and items. Some of our customers buy a lot of line items, many including heavy, bulky 5 gallon pails. The same customer might also purchase a tiny bottle of dye.

3. Our shopping cart had to offer rates based on Zip Codes.

4. We really wanted a cart that just used our existing system with PayPal buttons.  We did not want a rewrite of the site, a new template, etc.  We anted it to be simple enough that we could understand exactly how it works.

We finally found it!  A cart from auctioncart.com.  It seems to do about everything we need. Previously we had tried Zoovy, ProStores, and Yahoo Merchant Services- they were all way too complex for our needs.