Devastated

It finally stopped raining, so I went to pick up the tooling from the paint shop. Haven't been up there in a week, figured everything would be ready to go. Nope. The Duratec never catalyzed, the finish is still sticky. I mixed everything perfectly on a very accurate scale (2% MEKP), I must have got a bad batch of either Duratec or MEKP. I'm so bummed. Instead of buffing and polishing, I'm going to spend the next couple weeks stripping and cleaning. You live, you learn. All I can say is I'm pretty upset right now. Nothing I can do but move on. I'll get everything ready and try it again in a couple weeks (if I don't go nuts and throw everything in the trash or smash it with a sledge.) At least I know what everything is going to look like when its done, so that's kinda cool. I also know now to do a test shoot to make sure everything is working. I already have most of the big mould stripped (heavy acetone wash and a puddy knife). Its not as hard as I thought it was going to be. The Duratec basically sheets off, then you wash off whats left with an acetone soaked rag. While searching the Internet for a cure, I found hundreds of pages of painting horror stories, it seems like getting the paint right is as common as flying pigs. I would post pictures but I really don't want to look at it right now.