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10th March 2018, 03:20 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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10th March 2018, 09:42 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Our local Bunnings were getting rid of an 'unknown' brand of epoxy, when I was in today. Marked down to $10 a tin.
Maybe check your local Bunnings?
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10th March 2018, 10:08 PM #3
I use Megapoxy HX (low exotherm version of H) check for a distributor near you here http://megapoxy.com. It only comes in 5 and 20 litre kits though, for 5 litres it was around $35/litre and 20 litres it was around $20/litres, but it has gone up recently.
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just ordered some milliput so i'll have a play with that to on some bowls. Any use it?
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The Platnum brand on ebay is a good price and fine if you're not doing thick pours , ie fine for casting pen blank slabs etc .You can buy it in small volumes .
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Platinum epoxy is a clear casting epoxy. I used it when I first started off and had no problems with it , then changed to Megapoxy HX which now costs $110 for 4 liters from the factory ,Vivacity Engineering .
The staff there are very enthusiastic about their product and wanted to know what I was using it for , so when I purchased my second batch from them , I took a few samples along to show them and managed to sell them a hybred pen which defrayed the cost of the resin a bit . The pen now sits on their sample shelf .
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13th March 2018, 09:16 PM #10
The more you buy the less you pay. I buy 20-30 litres at a time and it delivered to my door around $20 per litre.
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Hi Guys
What is the shelf life of the Megapoxy in its liquid form?
When cured is it food safe?
I have been trying to hold off starting to use epoxies,but have too much "good" timber scraps laying around cluttering up the cave(yeah I know it will be another slippery slope,but better than wasting a resource!).
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14th March 2018, 07:10 AM #13
I thought that Milliput was mention on the forum in the past. I have not tried this but do see an advantage when using this on a piece that is not round as you don't need to build a wall around the void. I watch Peter Brown on his youtube channel do exactly this on a bowl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfwm9KcbDhQ
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Only ordered it the other day and it hasn't arrived yet!!!
I "shopped around" online and found this place to be pretty reasonable
https://www.hobbytools.com.au/puttie...for-modelling/
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