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by Bruce Niederer — GBI Technical Advisor Above: Our study of adding pigments to epoxy. We often get asked ‘What can I use to color my epoxy?’ The intended application is as varied as our customers. Often it’s simply to make it easier to paint over or to provide a color indicator between layers. Sometimes […]
by Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor Above: The Rapid Strip Brush™ is a great tool when you want to prepare fiberglass laminates for epoxy adhesion. During a recent inspirational hardware store visit, I discovered a rotary wire brush made by Norton™ called the Rapid Strip Brush™. It is used with an electric drill and […]
A good method for particleboard furniture repair by Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor Above: Particleboard furniture repair can be tricky when screws strip out. G/5 Five Minute Epoxy Adhesive offers an easy solution to fixing inexpensive furniture when this happens. I recently broke the leg off an old workshop table. The tabletop was made […]
Technical Staff Report Above: When repairing machined holes in fiberglass, whether screw or a through-hull fitting like the one for the pictured seacock, your strategy will depend on the size, purpose, and location of the hole. First, we will classify the types of holes we are discussing as ones that are round and have been […]
by Brian Knight—GBI Technical Advisor Above: The final version of the test Brian devised to determine the holding power of bolts epoxy bonded into concrete. When the load cell registered 4000 lbs, he stopped the experiment. The email exchange with Bob Warters in the article Installing a basketball goal is typical of the process we sometimes […]
