"so far so good"

"and yes, we did indeed glue the resin can to the scrap boards. :-0 This provided some amusement for Henry. A little torque got it off. No big deal."

"and CodeMash"

"I cleaned out the garage, We shuffled a lot of wood. At the end of the day we decided to do a couple of trial runs with the epoxy and sit on it for a day. The bucket contains the epoxy resin and hardener with silica filler. We were aiming for mustard consistency but ended up a little thicker than that. You can see the short pieces under the resin can that we glued up. The resin takes 24 hours to cure but 3 hours later it has hardened up quite nicely."

""stuff" is a zero sum game"