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Old 01-25-2007, 09:44 PM   #1
Nebe
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well since i stopped making plugs and selling them in a few tackleshops around my area, i will share my secrets. I never read about this technique, and just dreampt it up one day when i read that you could thin epoxy with acetone.
I was watering down each seperate part of a 1 to 1 epoxy with acetone and would dunk my blanks in one then the other for an hour each... hardens em up real strong. I mean real real strong to teh point that red cedar was as hard as iron. I had the luxury of lots of heat and would heat up my blanks to help the epoxy seep in. I was using pelucid with great results for a clearcoat on top of oil paints...If i used a clear enamel scratch coat the pelucid would peal off like dead skin form the bottom of your foot.
I dont know if you can do this in a cold garage or basement, but in a 90 degree room and 250 degree blanks it worked schweet.
Dont use pelucid without a massive exhaust system please. You will die.
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Old 01-26-2007, 02:05 AM   #2
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Thinning epoxy

NEBE... When you thinned your epoxy did you ever have any places that would not dry completely..? Finish coat...

I learned that with Devcon if you get a wrinkle in the epoxy coat you could use a fresh brush, dip it in M. E. K. Acetone then brush lightly to fix it.

But I was wondering if I thinned it all together if I could do more than 4 plugs at a time but still have a good result.

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