Choosing epoxy resin


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TFinch
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Hi,

I'm involved in a Biology project - we want to monitor attendance of birds at nestboxes using RFID technology. The plan is to attach glass capsule tags to plastic rings around the birds' leg and place an RFID reader around the box entrance.

Now, gluing a 12mm long 2mm diameter glass capsule to a plastic ring probably won't hold. Instead someone suggested fixing the glass capsule with epoxy resin to a second bit of plastic (salbex or darvic), then superglueing the salbex (which will have a larger surface area than the tag alone) to the ring. Hopefully the attached JPEG will give you a better idea of what I just described, but I don't think it's too important - all you need to know is that I want to fix a small glass capsule to a (slightly less small) bit of plastic.

I've no experience of using epoxy resin, so a few questions:
1. Will epoxy resin interfere with the structural integrity of the salbex plastic?
2. Will the resin (encapsulating the glass tag) form a good bond with the salbex plastic?
2. What sort of resin would you recommend - I'm hoping I can get something really viscous, so I can put a dollop of resin on the plastic, push the capsule into this dollop, then add more resin on top, then smooth it all over. If it's too runny then I'll presumably need a mould, and things will get real fiddly. Is this doable?

Many Thanks,

Tom
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questions:
how are the tubes mounted to the animal?
and you need an adhesive that cures FAST. no residue and no coating that the animal could ingest while
trying to get the thing off it's leg.

maybe have rings and chip pre built and washed and cleaned before attachment. even a 50 second quick cure epoxy will not be fully cured for abit. and the trauma of holding and sanding the tubes for the animal.

just my thoughts and ideas. best of luck for getting it done tho.

scottSmile


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