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Re: Heating Epoxy
By:Shawn Baker
Date: 12/21/2000, 6:04 pm
In Response To: Re: Oops! I screwed up a scarf (Jim Horlacher)

I would try slow, steady heat--maybe there wasn't enough heat getting down to the epoxy.

I just threw a cast of piece of bird's mouth shaft in the microwave, and heat softened the Raka right up.

Shawn

: I tried unsuccesfully to remove a stainless steel ferule from from a paddel
: that I made. I glued it on with System 3 epoxy with a mixture of cab-o-sil
: and micro ballons. I even tried heating it with a torch but it would not
: let go. It was almost to the point of turning the stainless steel blue. Do
: you know why the epoxy would not soften?

: Jim

Messages In This Thread

Oops! I screwed up a scarf
Shawn Baker -- 12/20/2000, 10:25 am
Re: Oops! I screwed up a scarf
Ray Port Angeles -- 12/21/2000, 12:03 pm
Re: Depends how you look at it . . .
Spidey -- 12/20/2000, 10:30 pm
Re: Depends how you look at it . . .
Chris Menard -- 12/21/2000, 9:01 am
Ahah, showing another of your dimensions . . . *NM*
Spidey -- 12/21/2000, 7:57 pm
Re: Oops! I screwed up a scarf
Jon -- 12/20/2000, 7:28 pm
Re: Oops! I screwed up a scarf
Ben Zeller -- 12/20/2000, 6:20 pm
Re: Oops! I screwed up a scarf
Hans Friedel -- 12/20/2000, 4:39 pm
Re: God Jul
Shawn Baker -- 12/20/2000, 4:53 pm
Re: God Jul
Hans Friedel -- 12/20/2000, 5:27 pm
Lutefisk builds character :)
Russ (Jordahl) Keat -- 12/28/2000, 4:27 pm
Re: Lutefisk builds character :) *Pic*
Hans Friedel -- 12/28/2000, 6:29 pm
Great picture Thanks :)
Russ -- 12/28/2000, 10:43 pm
Re: hope it all works out, let me know *NM*
Grant Goltz -- 12/20/2000, 1:14 pm
Re: Oops! I screwed up a scarf
Jim Horlacher -- 12/20/2000, 12:30 pm
Re: Oops! I screwed up a scarf
Ken Sutherland -- 12/23/2000, 1:56 am
Re: Heating Epoxy
Shawn Baker -- 12/21/2000, 6:04 pm
Porcupine Mistake
Jim McCool -- 12/20/2000, 11:37 am