Thread: Thinning Araldite

Originally Posted by OGYT

Okay. Somebody help the poor yank. What's araldyte?

Links supplied .
http://www.selleystrade.com.au/Arald...h/default.aspx

http://www.adhesivehelp.com/vantico.html

I appreciate the info from both of you. Thanks. It's more of a "putty" style of epoxy, than a liquid, so I wouldn't try to thin it, either. I'd go with the liquid type myself.
I buy that stuff they sell in the borgs here, it comes in a dual tube, and when you push the plunger, you get equal amounts of each. I learned from Hughie that you can mix it with acetone to thin it, if necessary. (I think it was Hughie);
When I have some really small, hairline, cracks that I want to fill, when I'm using crushed turquoise elsewhere on the vessel, I'll give it a shot of thin CA, wipe with paper towel, rub turq powder from the bottom of the jar across the crack, and give it another shot of CA. It works pretty well in thin cracks.

Originally Posted by OGYT

....comes in a dual tube, and when you push the plunger, you get equal amounts of each. ....

We can buy Araldite that way too.

Originally Posted by OGYT

When I have some really small, hairline, cracks that I want to fill, when I'm using crushed turquoise elsewhere on the vessel, I'll give it a shot of thin CA, wipe with paper towel, rub turq powder from the bottom of the jar across the crack, and give it another shot of CA. It works pretty well in thin cracks.

Yep, that's what I was saying also about very fine cracks. The only difference is that instead of an inlay powder for these fine, generally multiple cracks which obviously follow the stress lines of the wood I prefer powder sanded off the wood itself, i.e. hiding instead of highlighting. Conversely, I prefer chiseling out the profile of the larger cracks to be inlaid so that they look like a decoration, not just filled cracks. Different style but same techniques.