I guess since I started this rant, maybe I should explain a bit more as to
why I was asking.  We just finished closing our h-stab on our 235 and found
that our Hysol didn't harden to what I would assume is a `finished' state
but rather it stayed kind of sticky/tacky for some time. Its still slightly
tacky and this is 2 MONTHS later!!  I tried to contact builder support
immediately to ask if this was common and what could be done about it or if
we should try to cut the skin off or or or.. and in the asking.. I didn't
receive an answer. The next step in the process was to call and was told
that someone would get back to us. Weeks pass and no-one calls so at this
point I pose the question. We've since taken one of our test coupon's and
`nuked' it in the micro-wave to see if heat helped the process. We found
that infact if did, now we're not sure if we should set up some sort of oven
and heat the tail -on a nice flat surface- to 100 deg or so for a couple hrs
or more and see if its less tacky or what.. at this point I think its a bit
late to save the thing if it needs to be taken apart. I guess the thing that
bugged me was if we had received and answer right away we might have been
able to prevent having to build a second tail. This is the first time I've
used Hysol and I'm not totally familiar w/ the product. The product was
about 8 months old, it had been stored at room temp since we had purchased
it so it should be ok. We used incredibly accurate scales to weigh and mix
it [ their used for mixing auto paints and if you breath on them they
register it] I'm kinda at a loss as to what the heck to do.. and getting
more frustrated by the day.

Jarrett Johnson

235/320 50-something-%