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Old 03-30-2010 | 09:53 AM
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Default RE: A question about 5 min. epoxy.


ORIGINAL: Rodney

RCKen gave you the straight skinny on the relative strength of different cure time epoxies. Fortunately for us, even the poorer (faster curring) strength epoxies are usually stronger than the wood they tie together. If strength is truly a requirement, use the slow curring epoxies.
Or the new one hour Gorilla glue!!! I just got to use that stuff for the first time last week. Tough stuff!!!! The debate over epoxy is starting to sound like the debate over 4.8 volt VS 6volt batteries. You can measure the difference in your shop but in the real world you will never notice it. I recall one very long thread about epoxy not too long ago if anyone needs to do a search. Main point is you use the one you like to use because you aren't going to know what one is best at the field. I'm just not fast enough to be using the 5 min. for the main build but I do like it for small things like servo rails or small parts. If you need to do any adjustments to get things in alignment then 5 minute isn't the thing to use. I also use small dental burrs to drill little holes in the two sides/areas getting the epoxy and it squishes into those little holes and adds even more strength to the gluing surfaces. Just a little trick I learned when making false teeth. None of the teeth in the dentures I made ever came out!!