With regard to heating epoxy, I've found that heating the part...not the epoxy works MUCH better. It's amazing how a little heat will kick off the the epoxy when you heat it in a container.

Johng wrote: "I was experimenting with heating it in the micro a few years ago, no kidding( I'm not married ). 5 seconds on high is plenty for one batch. It will be watery and set in a couple minutes. 3 seconds would probably be a better temp.

I tried 10 seconds once, hee, hee. It went exothermic in my hand while I was walking from the micro to the bench and had to pitch the stuff into a wash basin to keep boiling epoxy from foaming over onto my hand. Man, that was stupid".

Thank you for that!!........that's the first positive correlation between this hobby and being married that I have heard! My life just became better!

Anyway, back to my $.02 worth.... when you heat the part before application, the epoxy hits it and flows out nicely. If you have warm epoxy flowing onto a "cold" part, it tends to "freeze" on contact.

Tailwinds,


John