Where to buy epoxy resin if you don't live in Dublin?

Fogmatic

We're in west Donegal, and my husband needs some epoxy resin (and catalyst/hardener I presume) for a boat he's building.

We're near Killybegs, but the marine suppliers there only seem to have the little repair kits - he needs a decent size container of it. Dublin's too far for a day trip - is there anywhere nearer us, or anyone who'll send it here?

He doesn't need any advice service with it, as he's well experienced in making things with fibreglass & resin.

spaceHopper

With fibreglass there are two kinds of resin you commanly use Polyeser and Epoxy - either way you could try a surf board shaper http://www.powersourcesurfboards.com/ or http://www.waxonsurfboards.ie/

Power source may also do a whole sale service. seabase.co.uk may shop to ireland. You may also get lucky with west bay surfboards in Portrush they do alot of epoxy boards and could tell you where they get theirs.

fergal.b

Hi fogmatic These sell it and will post at a good price or free, I use west system for my boatbuilding and if he is new to building ask for the pumps with the resin it makes mixing much handier http://www.marineparts.ie/paint-and-maintenance/epoxy-repair-kits/




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davlacey

i use these there up the north mighn not be to far away http://www.mbfg.co.uk/
or these might be closer in sligo but a bit dearer http://www.as-ireland.com/

Fogmatic

Wow - thank you everyone. I came to the computer to follow up an advert we found for West System, and saw your replies!
I found it hard to get the right search terms for relevant results, but we have the leads we needed, thanks to you.

fergal.b

West systems are a bit like Apple as in their price is universal so it should be more or less the same wherever you get it they also have a great website that explains everything you need to know http://www.westsystem.com/ss/ .
If you have any questions on the boat building end if things feel free to ask and we will try to help out in return for a few photos of the build

Fogmatic

Thanks fergal.b! I'll pass that on to him.

He's only at the stage of cutting out the plywood moulds/formers (that it'll be built around). We're taking photos of the progress, but I don't know if they'll be of any interest. He didn't design it - he bought the plans, and there are photos of the boats in progress on the designer's website.

It won't really get going for a while (the thawing-out breaks are quite frequent!).

fergal.b

All photos of boats been built are of interest to me it's a sickness I have
He might be interest in seeing my builds in the links below they are also from plans I got from Glen-L.



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breghall

get him to put up those pictures, to some people here all stages of a build could pretty much be called boat p*rn...:D

colrow

When I was in Cornwall a few years ago and re-decking a boat, these boys were the cheapest around. They have a fearsome range of stuff. I don't know if they would be cheaper with delivery though.

I told them the measurements of the deck, and they made up a list of everything that was needed including stirrers, rollers, glass, resin, solvent, hardeners etc. Might be worth a look.

http://www.cfsnet.co.uk/

Fogmatic

Thanks colrow.
It doesn't look as if they deliver to R.O.I, but it looks like a helpful website re the subject generally, and the forum could be useful.
We've now heard of a place that sells epoxy resin in Letterkenny (just a 2-hour round trip away), so it seems a good idea to look there first of all.

colrow

my pleasure

whacker1982

pictures pictures of progress would love to see this come to life. guaranteed huge interest and loads of help if needed.
mbfg.co.uk are very cheap and very helpful, if you order by 12noon you will get your order the next day. worth a look.