MColeman
Club Coordinator
Yeah, well, I've never been controlled by the demon rum.....
(Jest jokin' with you)
(Jest jokin' with you)
Mike Bryant
Active member
Mickey, I had just been using the pumps that come with the West cans, but sometimes the hardner especially doesn't pump as quickly as the resin so you compensate and pump a little more in and then get an epoxy mixture that sets up a little quicker than you wanted. I mix them in plastic cup anyway so will start adding the hardener by weight as it's better than by volume. Just the same as powder by weight is better than by volume. Thanks.
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Ian Robertson
Guest
Be aware that there are lot of different epoxies out there. Some are intended as adhesives and others are for laminating etc. West is good stuff but it is intended for laminating cloth and sticking to plain wood (which qualifies for wood or composite stocks). If you want to use it as an adhesive or to bed a stock with an aluminum bedding block I think you will find better products, perhaps even sold by West. If you are not sure what you have, glue some of the materials together and after a proper cure test them with a hammer and vise or whatever you feel appropriate.
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rrwildlife
Guest
Mixing liquid epoxy by volume, a tip
I have never bedded my own rifle but do work with epoxy quite often for boat building.
Here's what I use for accurate mixing by volume when using smaller amounts. First I transfer the resin and hardner to the old style ketchup and mustard bottles (the yellow and red ones they use in greasy spoon restraunts (label appropriately) and making sure they have the little plastic caps). I then transfer the amount I want to mix into 60 ml/cc syringes (seperate syringes for the hardner and resin labled appropriately). You can buy them at Tractor Supply Co. (they sell them for livestock use). I trim the spout of the ketchup/mustard bottles so i can fit lure lock syringe tip (no needle) into the spout of the bottle. Just insert the lure lock tip into the ketchup/mustard bottle, turn upside down and withdraw the amount needed, turn the bottle back upright and withdraw the syringe. When storing the syringe after use pull the plunger out slightly so it doesn't seal around the tip (if you don't mix resin and hardner in the same syringe it will not harden but sometimes makes the plunger difficult to extract).
Hope this helps someone.
Regards,
Ryan
I have never bedded my own rifle but do work with epoxy quite often for boat building.
Here's what I use for accurate mixing by volume when using smaller amounts. First I transfer the resin and hardner to the old style ketchup and mustard bottles (the yellow and red ones they use in greasy spoon restraunts (label appropriately) and making sure they have the little plastic caps). I then transfer the amount I want to mix into 60 ml/cc syringes (seperate syringes for the hardner and resin labled appropriately). You can buy them at Tractor Supply Co. (they sell them for livestock use). I trim the spout of the ketchup/mustard bottles so i can fit lure lock syringe tip (no needle) into the spout of the bottle. Just insert the lure lock tip into the ketchup/mustard bottle, turn upside down and withdraw the amount needed, turn the bottle back upright and withdraw the syringe. When storing the syringe after use pull the plunger out slightly so it doesn't seal around the tip (if you don't mix resin and hardner in the same syringe it will not harden but sometimes makes the plunger difficult to extract).
Hope this helps someone.
Regards,
Ryan
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rrwildlife
Guest
ooops, you gotta' scroll down to acraglas liquid to see the ketchup containers...... acraglas gel has so overtaken the glas that you can't hardly find the glas description!
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Couldn't really figure out what you were looking at but I bought mine at Gorden's Food Service.
Ryan
LOL!
Acraglas comes in "ketchup bottles," only they're clear and they're already in perfect ratio, no waste.
MColeman
Club Coordinator
Mike, I bought the pumps when I first started using West products but they were messy and were prone to siphoning so I abandoned them and just pour the resin and hardener into nalgene bottles for measuring in the plastic cups. I like it better than the pumps. Maybe I just got some bad pumps but mine didn't work well.
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