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Nice to be precise. Thanks, I was just trying to be simple, not a simpleton as it turns out. My source was wikipedia, yours mo' betta. I still say that a binding agent is not the thing it binds. So, no. Fiberglass is not an epoxy. It is often bound with epoxy. Glass fibers are not a thermosetting resin, they are glass fibers.Epoxy is a thermosetting plastic, it is not a thermoplastic material; once it cures it can't reheated and reformed into a new shape.
"RESINS FOR REINFORCED PLASTIC MOLDING
Thermosetting resins are primarily used in the reinforced molding process... Diallyl phthalate, silicone, phenolic, epoxy, and melamine resins are also used, taking advantage of the special properties of each." pg. 204, Industrial Plastics, Ronald J. Baird/David T. Baird
EPOXY RESINS
"...As thermosetting materials, they are cured or cross-linked by the addition of a hardener to the original liquid resin. The repeating molecular structure is attached to thermal molecular groups as curing takes place..." pg. 58, Industrial Plastics, Ronald J. Baird/David T. Baird
So perhaps I should have been a bit more precise and said fiberglass CAN be an epoxy... But if the fiberglass is made with an epoxy resin, then it is in the class of epoxy plastics.
Geek mode now turned off.
I dig you though. Nice source material.
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