reactive with epoxide groups amine curatives having a higher proportion of hydrogen atoms and approaching the upper end of the above recited range tend to effect greater crosslinking than do amine curatives having lesser hydrogen atoms and the resulting epoxide products tend to be more rigid and exhibit lesser levels of elongation than do the polyepoxide resins cured with amine curatives having the lower levels within the middle of the range of amine hydrogen atoms typically the amine curative will have from about 3 to 4 reactive hydrogen atoms and a molecular weight ranging from about 70 to 250 examples of latent amine curatives include dicyandiamide and imidazole derivatives also guanamine powders formed by the reaction of dicyandiamide with nitrites can be used other latent amine curing agents commonly used in the prior art may also be used the range of components based on one hundred parts by weight of resin forming components i e polyglycidyl ether or phenol monofunctional and amine reactive aliphatic ester component is from about 40 to 90 preferably about 50 to 70 parts by weight of polyglycidyl ether of a phenol and 10 to 60 parts of the monofunctional aliphatic ester the level of amine curative component is largely dependent upon the physical properties desired in many cases a stoichiometric level based on the equivalents epoxide in the polyglycidyl ether of a phenol type compound and the monofunctional aliphatic ester component the resin forming components may not be utilized generally.