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I foresee a giant resin cement mixer in the future of the main channel... Can't wait! 😂

It's so funny how Katelyn is like "I don't want to be dangerous" but they literally made a 1000 wick candle just last video lol

“Is that a really big wallet in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?” - Katelyn Also Katelyn- “we’re not that kinda channel” 😆

I think y’all should repurpose the reptile/ “resin” heating pads to be for Joob! Maybe adding it to the catio or making her a new little indoor hideout would be nice!

I worked with resin for the first time this year - I had some repairs I needed to do on my snowboard and an epoxy resin glue was the recommended material. Thanks to you guys I knew I needed to ventilate the room I was working in, wear gloves, I knew what it means when the resin started to get warm... Thanks guys, cause the glue instructions didn't tell me ANY of that.

Normally when mixing by hand, if you go fast, you are 'scooping' air in, with the 'screwdriver' you can hold it in the resin without introducing extra air into the mix

What you saw as "bubbles" or pucker on the first two looks more like amine blush, which is resin not curing properly, either from not being mixed enough or not getting warm enough. On that note, the lizard/heat mats are great not for curing speed, but if you live in a cooler climate and your resin doesn't cure or gets amine blush (me in a cold Canadian basement). Especially for thin cures like bookmarks, my heat mat really prevents sticky patches or amine blush :)

I keep reptiles and can confirm most heat mats are basically the same, lots of us have used the seed germination heat mats as well. Cracked me up that you noticed that!

25:39 seeing Evan wanting to eat the blue test cube made me realize that you guys should totally try making Turkish delights! It’s resin-adjacent, tasty, and super interesting to watch!

Now I need to see them make stuff out of edible glass/sugar just so they can finally make things that they can eat and look pretty.

Evan and Katelyn just know how to make everyone’s day by just causing chaos!!❤(mostly Evan causing the chaos)

I laughed so hard at your surprise when the stir stick made a difference in the "cement mixer." I bake a lot, and the beaters in the mixer are pretty important lol.

You guys should make a resin toilet seat with BEANS inside! Also I just tried your broccoli recipe and it was so good

I love your scientific method of testing these impulsive purchases. I’m impulsive like Evan but also roast products just like Katelyn

You guys should have a big weird mold that you pour in your extra resin. It could be collected and filled over time.

Katelyn edits these videos right? There needs to be more credit for how well y'alls vids are edited and the humor used in the editing. Great stuff

Yay I love that you guys tested all of these! and I think it's hilarious that some of these products are just repackaged for resin 😂 ngl I do have the resin heating mat though! I do have to say I have the screwdriver mixing thing on my wishlist. I have carpal tunnel pretty bad and anything to speed up or hands-free mixing would be a great benefit for me.

You guys should do a full resin guide telling us all the stuff you’ve learned over the years

I actually bought the "mad scientist" mixer for polishing dice after watching this! People usually recommend mini pottery wheels but they're way expensive and usually not that strong. I hope it works for that, the motor seems way stronger.

i know the goal is to avoid having bubbles, but i still think it could be neat to plan some projects where bubbles being in the resin is an intended feature. could be neat!

I personally use an electric resin mixer that is similar to the blue one, but it has a smaller set of paddles and is great for someone like me with chronic pain, has made mixing resin so much easier and I have found that it allows me to be able to do more since I am not causing myself extra pain by mixing various volumes of resin at once.

I feel like depending on the time it needs in the pressure chamber the fastest most efficent method would be the screwdriver mixer -> pressure chamber -> heating pad, or cement mixer -> wait 30mins for bubbles -> heating pad

I wish I could forget all of your videos so I could discover, binge, and enjoy them all over again 😭❤🧡💛💚💙💜

I have been using Total Boat for 2 years because of you guys lol. It never matters the dexterity of mixing speed that I use, EVER. It always always always leaves that "hair like" residue "bubble" (they are absolutely not bubbles) on smaller molds. I can mix slow and not as thorough with bigger molds and never have that string looking crap on top. Yet cheaper resin no matter how it is mixed, never does that? Interesting. Love your channel!!

Can confirm the cement mixer is great with resin. Have been using it this week for tumblers. Works great!

To Katelyn, or whoever edited this, you did tooooo damn good !! I was laughing my ass off the whole time TωT

I absolutely love you two. I thought nobody could match the love and fun of me and my husband...and the curiosity / testing / proving & disproving....you give me faith in fun and science as a couple. Way to go. Please keep at this, I've been watching you for years and I want to watch you for more years!

5:57 this is so wholesome. They have the only sponsored ads I actually watch because they are just absolute gems Also the ‘reptile’ mat reaching 128f goes to show how important thermostats are in reptile keeping to not burn your animal (and a good temp gun to make sure everything is working and at the right temperature) Edit: also when looking at Amazon reviews I never trust the star rating and instead immediately look at the worst reviews because I want to see the worst case/any individual defects that I might receive.

K&K throwing items at us and asking us to go away was such a treat!

i feel like a second test with pigment in the resin for the mixers would’ve really shown if they were truly mixed thoroughly. love the vid you guys. i get so much joy from watching your videos. you even inspired me to make my own cat tree a few years ago!! still standing strong today!!

The editing in this is top tier.

the video WAS more than i was hoping for! i was expecting a fairly unedited low effort video becasue this is the second channel but was pleasantly surprised to see katelyn really went all in with the editing.

Dear Evan and Katelyn, I absolutely loved this video! Your creativity and humor always make for such an entertaining watch. Testing out these weird resin mixing tools from Amazon was such a fun idea, and I was genuinely surprised by how well some of them worked! The electric resin mixer was definitely my favorite, and it was so satisfying to see how quickly and evenly it mixed the resin. The other tools were also really helpful and made the resin mixing process much easier. Overall, I thought this was a great video that showcased some really interesting and useful products for anyone who works with resin. Thank you for always bringing such fun and engaging content to your channel. I can't wait to see what you come up with next!

man i love you guys so much, you never fail to put a huuge smile on my face, either through just being you (silly geese) or by the incredible editing !! thank you Evan and Katelyn ❤

You know it’s a good day when E&K uploads a video

For the standing mixing thing: it could be useful to keep the resin moving if you’re not going to pour it straight away.

The re-packaging of items for craft-specific marketing is a tale as old as time. In the ceramics community we tend to make a lot of our own tools since a lot of them can be found in a kitchen or easily made (like you can buy a metal scraper from a ceramics shop or you can use an old credit card cut to whatever shape you prefer.)

Love to see you find new uses for these products 🤔💡

Man I love you guys😂 I’m so glad I found you guys, you both have brought so much joy and entertainment to my life and I’m so grateful! And it is also encouraging to see how you two love each other while also loving the same things! You guys are amazing!!

It's also worth considering regarding the curing mats that you appear to have the resin in silicon molds. Silicon is a fantastic insulator, to the point of being used as oven mitts. So that mat is having to completely heat the silicon before it starts to affect the resin.

When I need a big output for resin casting (lots of molded items,fast) I mix my resin, add color and then microwave it for like 5-10 seconds (it heats up REALLY fast), then pour it. The heat promotes curing and it goes of, ready for demolding in about a quarter of the time plus the resin gets really thin and thus the bubbles rise to the surface faster and easier. Perfect for closed intricate molds with fine details. Some molds might need vibration or tapping right after filling to release bubbles clinging to the surface. So, try my hack and microwave your resin.

I love your videos on both channels. The sound effects and visuals crack me up every time. Even the product placement commercials you make are just to funny.

I have a resin heating mat that came with a little tent to trap the heat and I hecking love that thing! I keep my apartment fairly cold, so I used to have to wait multiple days before I could de-mold things even 1/8" thick, but with the mat, I can cure 3/8" in 3-4 hours. Absolutely worth it. If I need to avoid bubbles, I'll let it sit for a while, but that thing is a game changer.

The amount that fits inside the cement mixer looks to be about the right amount or almost the right amount to fill up a set of tabletop dice. I wonder if they made it that small amount with projects such as custom keys or dice in mind.

Secondary use for the cement mixer is put your nail polish bottles in it. Rolling your bottles instead of shaking makes less bubbles. You could also use it to coat things with other things for embeds maybe? Like if you got your plastic beans and wanted them to be iridescent or glitter coated, just spray those in a little bit of glue and toss them in there with the coating and whabam you have sparkly beans.

I'm so grateful to you guys content, for reals, you lift me up everytime, you are fun, I love your content and the things that you say, the fun and creative ads, the new editing that you are always improving. Really. Thank you. And I was pleasantly surprise with the products on this video. I would test the heating mat waiting 30 minutes to see if anything changes with the bubbles, but just out of curiosity haha. Anyways, great video!

Using a wooden stick to hand mix also adds bubbles. The wood gives it off as well as the mixing itself.

6:00 - Fun fact, those tiny pockets were actually used for pocket watches. The patch there is called a watch pocket and was created for jeans dating back to 1879!

Evan, the tiny pocket used to be for you to securely attach your pocket watch to! Jeans are much older than we tend to think, and they haven’t changed, much as far as garments go

Really like that lil cement mixer... Your casting is so clear, and without degassing. Gonna try this with some Smooth On 690...

You guys should put the first stick on the mad scientist machine!

Ha, i've used a reptile heat pad to make a hotbox for an epoxy pour i had to pour outside during winter. It worked good enough to keep the ambient temp within manufacturers guidelines.

it be really cool if they made a GIANT EK or Jube mold, and every time they have left over resin, they add a tiny bit to it. then in like 12 months when it's full of excess resin from projects you get a crazy mixed up thing of extra colors. or even like randomly put the hearts and squares used for testing. like and maybe they'll see this probably flawed idea lol

add a drop of different food coloring to each part of the resin so you can more easily see when it's fully mixed on camera

Y'all are just so great together, the videos are so much fun to watch

everytime you post it gives me extra excitement

Love the Rosanna Pansino product placement, can tell that's one of her lines of silicone moulds

9:22 I have one similar to this one and I found that you need to turn the spoon or stick sideways so there is more friction or catches the resin more. I love mine.

Put the spatula from the drill in the holder on the turn table. Also. put that in before you pour the resin in. Or make sure it's as low as possible while mixing. pls.

Please could you whip up sillicone as much as you can to add as many bubbles as possible, make a cube mould with it, resin the cube and see how bubbly the outside of the cube is?

The resin mixer - keep blades submerged in resin. You still need to scrap sides unless you have the flexible blades. AND messy crafters, like myself, don't want resin drops on our nice drills

5:35 Evan and Katelyn do be turning into _that type of channel_ slowly but surely xD

It's possible that the cup got knocked off more easily when it was empty bc there wasn't any weight on it. The downward force pushes the cup into more contact with the sticky plate, so it like, holds better, maybe?

Might get one of those mats to put under my pressure chamber as my garage is pretty cold and resin takes ages to cure. Obviously run lower pressure to allow for expansion but reckon it’d help. Also want to see you build a mega cement mixer, that can handle at least what your biggest pour to date is 😀

Katelyn, the fact you put a heat signature lizard in the camera when displaying the mat is sooooo good xD

those pixelated long objects look like something else, something on "that type of channel"

This video has some insane editing. Good job guys!

The mini cement mixer one I use to mix epoxy for fixing/building fishing rods! It does really well at mixing without adding bubbles

The best days are when Evan and Katelyn post ✨

I follow a couple of dice makers who use the tilted mixer thing. They mostly use it to mix color.

No matter what, it's just great watching you two do stuff. ❤

The science bracket is for holding test tubes and maybe a few other other similar sized equipment for chemistry labs (ie a probe in a solution for a prolonged period where you want consistent placement, and a test tube in a flame

The #3 mixer we actually use to mix resin seal where i work. Ours has a bracket to insert 2 popsicle sticks into that goes into the resin.

I would say that the bubbles in the resin that was cured on the heat pads are likely water vapor from the moisture absorbed by the 2 parts of resin. Curing resin is an exothermic reaction meaning that it gives off heat, and because hot resin cures faster, you can have a runaway reaction. The excess resin that I sometimes have after repairing a surfboard has gotten so hot that it starts releasing visible steam and has even melted the container it was curing in.

The little cubes you used to test the mats it reminds me of turkish delight and I really want some now.

Seeing the twisty one makes me wonder what sort of projects they could do where they intentionally take pieces out before they’re fully cured and bend them.

I designed and printed a mixer the same as the second one you showed 7 years ago. I made it adjustable rpm. It worked really well

"Suitably Impressed" sounds like a perfect response for many things

Freaking adore you two! This was such a fun adventure with you both.

I remember saving heating mat for resin about a year ago and it’s still in my Amazon list. This video helped me to understand whether it’s worth buying or not. Personally, it might not be worth it. I use 24-hour type (cheaper and less toxic), so heating mat won’t make much difference to me

Big cement mixer video incoming 😂 excited imagine 😂

04:30 that was pure Evan-Essence, as I like to call it: 🙌 evanescence 🙌 because beauty fades 🫠

I love the headgear!!!🐱🐱🐱

I will tell you right now with 100% certainty that is a screw driver that came with a paddle attachment. I have an identical one in gray that I use at work for PC repairs to save my wrist.

I know that in the woodturning videos where they use resin they always put it in a pressure pot to eliminate bubbles. I wonder if by adding a hot plate inside a pressure pot you could get the best of both worlds.

I think what you could do or test is manufacturing some kind of chuck for the cement mixer that could also hold paint bottles of different diameters. I saw people use lab vortex shakers to shake acrylic paint, but I wonder if using a dropper bottle with a stainless steel ball bearing inside with this style of rotary mixer would be as effective.

All of these gadget videos give me life

Reminder to always use a thermostat with a heat mat especially with live animals! They can reach over 180F, scorch wood and start fires if they malfunction, stya safe!

You guys are so funny ‼️ Always saying the out loud part for us ‼️😻😻😻

Wait, now you have to combine all of it. Cement Mixer, Compression Chamber, Waiting for 30min. and then using the heating mat! 🤯

So glad I found Evan and Katelyn 2!

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It's insane how much evan and katelyn are me and my wife's spirit animals 😂😂😂❤ 🐶🐱

Very interesting to see the sheer difference ion the amount of bubbles between the "control" & the "heating pad" moulds. Just a thought : What if you used the vacuum chamber to remove the bubbles BEFORE pouring & THEN use the heating pad ? Would you still get as many bubbles ? Are the bubbles a product of the curing process ?

I don't know that much about resin but everyone knows you can literally pour it and torch it so that you instantly get rid of the bubbles , so at a small scale you can just buy a small torch lighter and in a split second torch the bubbles away so that it is not even an issue.

So I have the "cement mixer" and I like it very much as a person with chronic pain, my hand get so tired mixing resin the traditional way. With the cement mixer it helps to hold a popsicle stick or a silicone stick in it to help mix it and what I do when I need to mix more resin, I tilt it up by placing it on some wedges and use a bigger plastic cup that still has a narrow bottom. Hope this helps with your giant one or if you want to continue using lil boi.

The editing in the video was really well done.

Listening to you guys helps me get through my day being productive! You’re better than music for motivation! Ty! 🎉❤

I want to let you both know that I fall asleep to your guys's videos every night, I love the chaotic energy and be amazing editing with the little commentary text. You are in pure 90's fashion 🎶 You're the best around, nothing's ever gonna to keep you down🎶