Thread: What are you working on?

I use this stuff just because I got several at the dollar store.
5 minutes is fine, I think. Sez single-use, but I have done scads of scales with one.



I was using Bakelite dust from old broken scales made using a dremel-drum until I got some black bog oak dust from outback via MikeT!
Horn works good too. Makes them take some color or dye . I dribble out the two parts side-by side and snurdle-in the dust into each.
Then, I push them together and mix it up good. I just apply with a toothpick usually

Originally Posted by Gasman

Having ...snip... So im guessing 5 minute epoxy is out of the question. Ha.

Or would CA mixed with horn be better? Why pick one way over the other. I guess thats a good question too.

I would use the epoxy. It would seem most brands would be fine. Always try to work fast with epoxy, at least for me anyway, as I'm fairly slow moving!

Hey as far as the problems uploading, I was having some issues uploading pics and figured it out for my phone anyway.. I had to save edit the pics so that they were square. And then save to my notes, which in turn converted it to a proper kind of file, or something I'm very tech-illiterate. Then I saved the pic from there which went to my photo gallery.
At that point the pics uploaded fine.
The various websites all said to get some app for converting and so I quit trying and accidentally figured out the notes thing.
Hope that helps..

Originally Posted by Gasman

Having trouble uploading pics.

So, what kind of epoxy do you guys use to fill bug bites? Guessing its clear? I have some black horn bits i can get filler material from but will need to mix it with the epoxy. So im guessing 5 minute epoxy is out of the question. Ha.

Or would CA mixed with horn be better? Why pick one way over the other. I guess thats a good question too.

I find this Bog dust works best with black horn. Nothing blacker, I think
Hard-rubber and Bakelite sand brown like most horn will, yet dye and neetsfoot will work on epoxy with dust. Seems epoxy will not take dye, but mixed with dust, it will.
Just gotta experiment?

Keep the two parts seporate, mix in the material, then push the two parts together. Briliant my friend! I wouldnt habe thought about that. Thinking outside the box i think they call it. Thats is such an easy idea i would have never though of it.

Im not fortunate enough to have any bog oak so i will make do the the horn. And like ya said, it dies easy enough. I will just make sure i get lots of horn mixed in. I think the spots i need to repair are about 3/16 at the most and on the edges. So i will pack it in, let it setup, sand them down and dye. Then afterwards, soak in oil for a week and cross my fingers.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Keep the two parts seporate, mix in the material, then push the two parts together. Briliant my friend! I wouldnt habe thought about that. Thinking outside the box i think they call it. Thats is such an easy idea i would have never though of it.

Im not fortunate enough to have any bog oak so i will make do the the horn. And like ya said, it dies easy enough. I will just make sure i get lots of horn mixed in. I think the spots i need to repair are about 3/16 at the most and on the edges. So i will pack it in, let it setup, sand them down and dye. Then afterwards, soak in oil for a week and cross my fingers.

Yeah. I always think I go light with the dust. I really need to increase the ratio and see. I mix it into each part and then combine them.

Thus the 5 minute clock begins!
I hold them up somehow, rotate and let the stuff run this way and that. I need complete privacy for a half-hour to do it on some scales.

I look silly doing it!

I will give it another try...



The problem is one picture. The others worked fine. Damn phone!

Yeah...Gotta work fast. Push it in good with the toothpick. Smear it!
Lay it on, Brother!

I use a dremel drum to slowly whittle it down the next day. Then by hand.
Go with the grain. Scotchbrite to finish! A Sharpie dye-job and then neetsfoot?

I never leave them in Neetsfoot more than overnight.
Oh! Finding Mineral oil works great!

I used no dye and only mineral oil on the old razor above.
Odd how much they will soak-up after a while.
Longer you leave them, the slicker they get!

Do I have it right that you put the bog oak dust into the hardener and the resin? I've never thought of that, a genius idea!

Also, if you were to choose, which would you use mineral oil or neatsfoot? Please excuse me if I've asked this before, I have memory issues and forget to write down in the journal..
Would you suggest them for different materials?

I use the T-88 structural epoxy, you got plenty of time to work with it, cures in 12 hrs. gets even stronger with age.


I mix the epoxy first, then add the bog oak dust till I have the consistency that I want for the repair. Typically, like bondo. It can stand in its own, and won't run out of the edges of the scales.

Best to overfill the repair, and sand down.





And CA doesn't take to hair dye, either.!!




I suppose I need to fire up the wheel, for a shloo of black dust, for folks.

Originally Posted by outback

I suppose I need to fire up the wheel, for a shloo of black dust, for folks.

Har! Sounds as if.....My fault, Mike...Perhaps something Wostenholm?....