TotalBoat Polyester Laminating Resin

Been through quite a few gallons of this by now, and never had an issue. Performance is great, reliable curing.

Use it for repairing my boat. Works great. A little off topic. First gallon I ordered, it looks green. Second gallon, it looks a little purplish. not sure if it matter with anyone. I have no problem.

This product is easy to use and bonds very well

Great quality resin at a reasonable price, delivered. What could be better?

I live in NC on the coast and there is plenty of poly resin around for 25 -30 dollares a gal

Started restoring a 1974 Wellcraft and went with another option for polyester resin to save a buck. During the project I really struggled with this cheaper product. Even ended up throwing away a 5 gallon drum because it had started to crystalize from sitting too long. Ordered the Total Boat product and will NEVER use anything else. This is a superior product!

I used this in covering the new ply laid in on my floor. It became easier as I learned how to mix it with the hardener and mixing the right amount for the time I had to work it. I never mixed more than 8 ozs.

The laminating resin works as advertised. Their support desk is outstanding. I will definitely be a repeat customer.

Arrived fresh, on time and just as advertised. Product performed as expected. Great results. Thanks boat works for showing how to use the products.

The resin and hardener worked like it should. The only bad thing I experienced was the can was hard to pour from .I poured the resin into a plastic jug which worked a lot better.

i used this to recore my gas tank covers/hatch along with the balsa coring JD sells. then finished with total boat gel coat with wax to cure and seal at the same time idea from Andy Boat works today. all was user friendly.

I have the same problem another reviewer had with the resin not staying tacky.

Used this resin on my old sailboats' interior and exterior. Since polyester resin was used to build the boat, it works great. Use protective clothing and a mask. It has strong fumes. I followed Andys' suggestions at Boatworks Today when I applied it.

I'm not a professional at working with fiberglass but I have learned enough to know that quality resins and glass makes any job easier. I have tried a lot of different types of resins in the past most driven by cheaper prices. For the money total boat resin is the best I have found.

Mixes right lives up the cure time before it shows signs of gelling up. Clean up with acetone.

I have used JD products extensively in the past and all have surpassed expectations. This gallon of laminating resin, however, turned rock-hard/solid after about 12 hours. I followed the activator (MEKP I think) instructions to the letter...exact number of drops per oz, and the temps were around 70F. I have used JD resin, West Marine resin, Bondo resin, etc so I'm very familiar with finish resin, laminating resin, etc and application. Two stars because, as a finish resin, the product would have worked great, but this was supposed to be a laminating resin. I was able to sand up the final 'lamination' (now really hard), and zero resin transferred to the sandpaper...generally laminating resin will gum up coarse grit sandpaper. I'm speculating this was just a batch or lot of resin that was mis-labeled as laminating resin, but was actually finish resin. I contacted JD and they offered to send over a replacement gallon of laminating resin which was great, but I declined, as I was able to make the 'laminating' resin work by coarse sanding it to prep for the finish layers. I will buy from JD in the future, but just be cautious if you leave the final 'laminating resin' layer overnight to finish with a 'finishing resin' coat that the 'laminating resin' may be 'finish resin' and require a coarse sanding.

I'm giving it 5 stars because ive never had an issue with this resin, also i am not a professional in fiberglass boat repair or fiberglass in general. i cannot compare it to other resins on the market because this is the only one ive ever used. i believe the price point is fair, quality seems to be very good, i have no complaints about the resin. ive almost exclusively used it in cooler temps with no problems. as for JD, customer service is great, shipping is great. cant complain and will continue to purchase their products.

I have always liked your products. They are good quality and good price. I will be using the resin to reinforce 1/48 scale of an R/C model of the USS Constitution

Works great when you are trying to build-up/apply multiple layers with no sanding between layers.

Purchased by the gallon much better price than evercoat. Worked as well. Big advantage in all accessories mixing cup gloves and eye dropper measures for catalyst allowed making small batches of resin

I wrote a review this AM after doing a ruinous wet layup. I repeated what I had read in the reviews stating what the gradients on the pipette meant. I was wrong as was whomever wrote the other review. I performed an experiment and found that a teaspoon is about 180 drops from the pipette. Thus, I thought the other gentleman must have been using an eye dropper or something with a larger orifice than the provided pipette. The ""1"" gradient on the pipette is around 40 drops. Do the math - go from there.

This had excellent flow and mixed well. This was much better than a popular brand I bought at the auto supply store. It can be tricky to measure properly. The first gallon I purchased did not come in a kit, and I ran out of hardener, possibly due to measuring difficulties. The droppers included in the kits made this much simpler and more accurate.

When I got the product it was the wrong color. The laminating resin is amber and this was blue finishing resin. I ordered the laminating resin. The shipper tore the label off of a finishing gallon jug and replaced it with a label from a gallon of laminating resin. I sent the product back and received a credit to my credit card very promptly. I explained the situation to Hillery but I don't think it went any further, I never heard back from anyone.

Completely unsuitable for applications requiring strength and durability. Purchased the product for fiberglass work on the underside of a deck. Selected the product based on 5 star ratings from previous reviewers but very disappointed with the results. Areas being repaired were below a winch station and other deck hardware on a sailboat; where water had penetrated and rotted the balsa core. These repairs required a high strength product. The repair areas ranged from 36sq-in to 3sq-ft. The first attempt at re-fiberglassing, after replacing the balsa core, was unsuccessful. The wet resin had very low tack and would not hold the fiberglass in place when wetted out on the repair surface. Tried wetting the fiberglass on a bench first, then applied the fiberglass to the repair with a roller, held it in place with a board, and used a sponge underneath to conform to the repair surface and provide distributed compression. The result was very poor - large areas with micro air bubbles and partially bonded fiberglass strands. The fiberglass layers had poor adhesive strength and were easily removed. Subsequent attempts were conducted by vacuum bagging. These repairs, although providing an improved result, still exhibited substandard bond strength: the fiberglass sheets de-bonded easily and on one repair the shear force exerted by a screw driven into the surface caused it crumble; on a repair with 6 fiberglass layers two days after it had cured. I can't know whether other reviews of this product giving five stars are genuine, but if they are it shows great variability in product quality control. The resin I purchased was blue, other reviews, and the JD picture indicate pink, this alone raises suspicion on product quality control. Based on my experience I will never again purchase a Total Boat product; the suspicion being that the entire product line is substandard with poor quality control. I've also lost respect for Jamestown Distributors, as a supplier of quality boat products given their adoption and intense promotion of Total Boat; where quality control or product inferiority would appear to be an issue.

I am using this resin to repair fish box lids and it is working as well as could be expected.

The first few gallons I ordered cam in a blue color. The blue batch gelled and cured out in the time specified on the container label. The last few orders I received poly in a pink color. This pink batch took twice the catalyst to get the same gel time. And it took a good 18 hours to cure out. My advice, mix a test batch when you receive a new order of poly. Depending on the age of poly and the batch, it does not always react to the catalyst consistently.

purchased two gallons one was good the other had already partly cured.

This was my first time fiberglassing. I own a Formula 242LS and have been using the swim platform as the support for a 150 quart live baitwell. Needless to say I would have found the baitwell and swim platform 30' under if I hadn't been proactive! The resin went on like a breeze, hardened like a rock with plenty of time to message and is now bullet proof! I wish I had taken before and after pictures! THERE WON'T BE A NEXT TIME! Note: I can't take ALL the credit! Chet helped me. Actually, he did a lot! BUT, he was 100% satisfied as to the ease of application and final results! Thanks Chet, I owe you dinner!!