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jonnyseka	j jonnyseka posted 5 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
j Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 12	Long story short the Oak veneer has peeled of my external oak doors so ive sanded it off and i'm planning on using epoxy resin too attach(glue) 8mm strips of oak to the existing doors. what resin would you recomend cheers J
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Epoxies will bond extremely well to wood, so you can use virtually anything you like. Whatever is in your price range and available to you. For surface bonding like this, you want something a bit thicker to fill the bond gap, so while you could use a laminating epoxy, I would use a paste epoxy or an epoxy adhesive. Doesn't have to be anything special, something like Araldite or JB Weld would do the job, but be aware that those products are extremely overpriced for what they are. You can get significantly cheaper products from the right supplier, so look for composite suppliers or industrial chemical suppliers near you.
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Massimiliano	M Massimiliano posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
M Group: Forum Members Posts: 167, Visits: 1.1K	+x Hanaldo - 5/20/2020 7:30:44 AM Epoxies will bond extremely well to wood, so you can use virtually anything you like. Whatever is in your price range and available to you. For surface bonding like this, you want something a bit thicker to fill the bond gap, so while you could use a laminating epoxy, I would use a paste epoxy or an epoxy adhesive. Doesn't have to be anything special, something like Araldite or JB Weld would do the job, but be aware that those products are extremely overpriced for what they are. You can get significantly cheaper products from the right supplier, so look for composite suppliers or industrial chemical suppliers near you. Hi, laminating epoxy with filler like microfibers would do the job?
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jonnyseka	j jonnyseka posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
j Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 12	ive taken tall the veneer off the door and id like to give the exposed door a coat of resin that would soak in a bit to add prtection before adding the oak, would EL2 epoxy work for this
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 8.5K	XCR Epoxy Coating resin is slightly thicker than EL2 making it a bit easier to get a nice even coat over wood work. It is commonly used over wood for protection and decorative purposes. It's also a bit quicker and easier to use than EL2 as you can overcoat within a couple of hours and it is easily sanded and polished back up if there are any surface blemishes to fix. Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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jonnyseka	j jonnyseka posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
j Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 12	+x Warren (Staff) - 5/20/2020 12:14:23 PM XCR Epoxy Coating resin is slightly thicker than EL2 making it a bit easier to get a nice even coat over wood work. It is commonly used over wood for protection and decorative purposes. It's also a bit quicker and easier to use than EL2 as you can overcoat within a couple of hours and it is easily sanded and polished back up if there are any surface blemishes to fix. brilliant, this is all starting to make sense now, when using thickener what is the difference/ pros cons between Glass Bubbles (Microspheres) and Fumed Silica Thixotropic Powder
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	+x Massimiliano - 5/20/2020 8:30:27 AM +x Hanaldo - 5/20/2020 7:30:44 AM Epoxies will bond extremely well to wood, so you can use virtually anything you like. Whatever is in your price range and available to you. For surface bonding like this, you want something a bit thicker to fill the bond gap, so while you could use a laminating epoxy, I would use a paste epoxy or an epoxy adhesive. Doesn't have to be anything special, something like Araldite or JB Weld would do the job, but be aware that those products are extremely overpriced for what they are. You can get significantly cheaper products from the right supplier, so look for composite suppliers or industrial chemical suppliers near you. Hi, laminating epoxy with filler like microfibers would do the job? Absolutely.
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	+x jonnyseka - 5/20/2020 12:39:18 PM +x Warren (Staff) - 5/20/2020 12:14:23 PM XCR Epoxy Coating resin is slightly thicker than EL2 making it a bit easier to get a nice even coat over wood work. It is commonly used over wood for protection and decorative purposes. It's also a bit quicker and easier to use than EL2 as you can overcoat within a couple of hours and it is easily sanded and polished back up if there are any surface blemishes to fix. brilliant, this is all starting to make sense now, when using thickener what is the difference/ pros cons between Glass Bubbles (Microspheres) and Fumed Silica Thixotropic Powder Glass bubbles are used to reduce the density of the resin, thickening it while also making it much easier to sand. Great for making epoxy fairing pastes. Fumed silica is a thixotropic additive, which is different to thickness. It changes the behaviour of the resin under shear stress, meaning that when it is just sitting it will be very thick and not sag, but when you are brushing it or moving it, it will be much thinner and still easy to move around. If you've ever worked with gelcoat, gelcoats are a thixotropic substance. As is honey. You sometimes might want to combine the two to get the properties you want. Glass bubbles on their own will make a nice thick paste, but it won't be thixotropic and so might still sag if used in thick sections of a vertical. It also makes for a relatively brittle resin, thanks to its low density. While fumed silica is great for making pastes that won't sag, but because it is derived from quartz it also makes the substance extremely difficult to sand.
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