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jttheclockman

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Has anyone found an epoxy glue that has more than a 5 min. open time??? If so what is the name and where can you buy it??? Thanks
 
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Here's a +1 for West and System 3. VERY good products, and a wide variety of hardeners - so by purchasing a couple of different hardeners, your large container of resin can be used with a variety of curing times.

And even though you have to buy them in large quantities, they're cheaper on a per-ounce basis than most hardware-store epoxies. Many places give good deal on the gallon size, but rip you off on the quart size (charging almost what a gallon would cost!). However, I've found local boat stores that sell the quarts of resin at a very good price.

In a former life (or so it seems), I did high-power rocketry, and used the stuff to lay up fiberglass airframes. Awesome stuff.

Also, you can somewhat extend the working life of any epoxy by keeping it cold, just like you can accelerate the cure by heating it up.
 
I just became a big believer in using epoxy for gluing my pen blanks in. The problem is when I want to do more than 3 at a time It just is not enough time and even though I have everything ready to go it just comes up short and trying to push that last one in the hole with the glue drying is not fun. You would think the pen turning industry would have something like this package for us pen turners. I at one time almost bought the system 3 but could not justify the high cost so I opted for the small bottles and I probably would have been cheaper in the long run if I went with the system 3 .
 
I am going to stand corrected. I see Craft Supply USA has a 20 minute epoxy. That is a good time frame. Will look at Wally world also.
 
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