14 Oct
2010
14 Oct
'10
5:53 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Philip Pemberton wrote:
Brownell's AcraGlas. It's sold as a bedding epoxy for rifles, but
it's classic slow setting 2-part resin epoxy. Shelf life is rated at 10
years and holding life rated at 50.
Doc
Truth be told, I prefer epoxies, they're much
easier to handle, if a
lot slower to set. I keep a good stock of Araldite Rapid resin and
Milliput epoxy putty on hand...
Did they change the formula for Araldite at some point? I remember it
being great stuff when I was a kid, but then when I used it in more
recent years it just didn't seem as good. Various other substances seem
to have suffered over the years due to replacing of harmful chemicals in
them with less-harmful counterparts which don't work as well, but I'm
not sure if that's why Araldite didn't seem as good.
I've not found a really good off-the-shelf epoxy here in the US yet -
various ones that are OK, but not as robust* as I'd like.