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Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products

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mechman48:

'Do any of you remember or ever used Belzona chemical metal paste or putty?....OZ.'

...I still have a tub of Belzona metal with a tub of its activator somewhere in my workshop...  :scratch:

Manxmodder:
George,yes I have used Belzona on commercial jobs years ago. As it happens I also have a couple of part used pots of the stuff lying in the adhesives cupboard. Belzona is still available and though it is an excellent product,it is very expensive.

 Good old JB Weld or homemade epoxy pastes with metal powder fillers are a lot more affordable and fit the bill for most of my needs these days. 

Do give the low viscosity super glue and cast iron or brass powder technique a try,it's easy and very quick to do.....OZ.

rleete:

--- Quote from: DavidA on January 06, 2015, 08:40:26 AM ---cyanoacrylate glue...
...there was no way that the doctors could remove this stuff from her leg without causing permanent damage

--- End quote ---

What?  You don't have plain old acetone in your country?   It will dissolve CA easily.

vtsteam:
Wouldn't a solvent like acetone soak the glue residue plus acetone into the large patch on her skin, though. Seems like the cure would be at least as bad as the original injury. That might work for a minor bit of skin on a thumb, but I wouldn't want to try it over a large spill like that.

Fergus OMore:
I thought that CA glues and doctors ability to use them dates back to certainly the Vietnam War.  I suspect that I have still CA packs in the  rather more than than First Aid packs in our three cars! My wife still has the urge 'Never to let the Sun set on undrained pus' and my dentist daughter is doing orthodontic work with the stuff.

Me, I'm merely the silly old fool who wanders around and 'mends things'. Only the other day, I climbed up( at 84+) to CA a bit of curtain rail that fell down and I also patched a piece of gilded plaster beading on a framed tapestry  that had been done by the wife of a bloke( died in 1939) who had the LNER painting contract from Berwick on Tweed to York- and I used CA glue and bare fingers. No problems, a bit of now very old runny Swarfega and followed by plain soap and water.

Again, what's the fuss about epoxy resins in the restoration of worn machinery? The local slideways grinder down the road at Shildon cettainly uses Turcite and there are things like Moglice and Devcon. Haven't used either but I did a repair on wooden clarinet stand with Loctite 660 which had lain -well out of use by date in my desk. Some millions of years ago, I used some metal car bodge on a front shear of an old Myford- it worked and even further back, we used to make epoxies for coating table tops in bars- that needed an angle grinder to remove.

Please- what is the fuss-today? It is OLD( Like me)

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