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What is your favorite epoxy for repairing stocks? The Acra-Weld now listed in the Brownell's catalog is apparently intended to be used in something looking like a glue gun.
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micro bed and add toner if needed.
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I have used several, but Devcon 2-Ton seems to be as good as any and can be found at many hardware stores. For repairing cracks, you can lay on a bead and hit it with a heat gun and it thin out and suck right into the crack.
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If you are just looking for regular all round epoxy- I would opt for the JB Weld at your local NAPA store. Best I have ever seen. Good luck.
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JB Weld is good but all I have seen is gray.
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Heating the epoxy to thin it sounds good, I'll have to try that. What I do to get it down in the crack is:
1. Spread the crack abd prop open with a toothpick(s)
2. I use relatively slow drying epoxy and force it down into the crack with a burst from an airhose (at about 100 psi). I usually do this several times.
3. I pull the toothpicks, wipe off the excess glue, wrap wax paper around the repaired surface and then tightly wrap with surgical tubing (I've also used an old bicycle inner tube).
4. After the partial cure time is reached (it usually gives partial cure times and full cure times on the glues instructions) I unwrap everything and using 0000 steel wool I remove any additional excess glue thats squeezed out of the crack. Then I rewrap it and leave it 24 hours before I unwrap it again.
I've successfully used Devcon glue and try to use a glue with a multi-hour cure time.
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I use Acra Glas and when I need to do cracks, I use the Acraglas thinner. You can get it very thin consistency and really get it in those cracks.Thinning it also helps compress the joint easier than thicker epoxy
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I've used the Devcon 2 Ton with good luck. It's clear and available at the hardware store near me.
Most people don't know or don't care, but epoxy's have a shelf life and it ain't 10 yrs. More like a year or two at most. After that, properties start to degrade depending on how it was stored, how much oxygen, etc. I used to submit the stuff to our lab for properties testing in a nuc R&D proj I worked many moons ago.
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