Well, the mold is done. Now onto buying materials for the actual layup. Starting with the epoxy as i already have some 200gsm 3k twill weave. I’ll also need some mold release, i want to try the spray on stuff this time. This stuff is way pricey.
It has been 22+ years since I used West systems Epoxy, and I hope they improved it since.
I recall it being very thick, taking forever to saturate cloth, very stinky, yellowish when new, browned quickly with minimal UV exposure, and had the odd 4:1 , or was it 5:1 mixing ratio, and was very intolerant of slightly improper ratio.
I moved onto System 3 which was 2:1. ratio by volume. Their General purpose resin was nothing special. Sb112 and Clearcoat were my goto for laminating wood surfboards. Clearcoat for wood and fiberglass saturation, sb112 for filling the weave. Kind of got priced out of system 3, before trying their newer Silvertip formulation,.and then tried budget friendly APEX laminating resin, and then realized how much better System 3 was.
Apex got better over the years, and I just got used to working with it, and could just drive and buy it a few miles away in Socal.
Now on other side of country and ordered it, as its good enough and i am used to its behavior.
Wanted to try Resin Research Laminating Epoxies. The laminators in surfboard factories seemed to prefer working with it as of a few years ago, but am not upto date on latest and greatest. But the West system really left a bad lasting impression on me.
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Huh, interesting. I’ve never tried anything else, but i used west systems a year ago for an FSAE nosecone, and it seemed fine for that. Might try some other epoxies if i have the time and budget after esk8con.
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Sample set of four BRP hubs has been ordered! If the quality is up to scratch, I’ll be proceeding with the full batch shortly after. Also, its unfortunately looking like Split Decision won’t be finished in time for esk8con (atleast not while maintaining my level of polish i want), so I’m flying there empty handed 
I’ve got a replacement board lined up to ride around though, and worst case i can still take some dope photos at the event for all of you going 
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I aint dead yet. Hubs are looking good, i should have them in hand soon lol. Hopefully they’re up to my expectations. Unfortunately, final delivery will have to be pushed back after esk8con, apologies to anyone who was hoping for a set for the races
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Daaayum those are Purdy.