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Tips on Dispensing Epoxy

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I think it was a post by Charlie on the Trailer Sailor BBS that I first read about putting epoxy in a bag. GREAT idea.

Dispensing epoxy can be a real mess, especially if it needs to be put in for a fillet, or into some small area that you can't easily get to.

The post mentioned putting the mixed epoxy into a sandwich bag and snipping off the corner to whatever size "bead" you needed.

Let me tell you, this works GREAT! What a time (and MESS) saver! Especially when filling all of those bolt holes!

Now, getting it from the mixing cup and into the ziplock is another story.....

I had a place where I needed to get some thickened epoxy forced into a void underneath an fiberglass skin. I had to get it "squirted" through a hole with a little bit of pressure. The above snipped-corner bag kept slipping out of the hole and wouldn't stay pressed in there well enough.

Well.....

You know all those 101 or 5200 tube tips you have laying around because you needed to use the entire tube in one sitting?

Ta Da! (I bet everybody is already doing this......)

Just snip the corner of the bag a little smaller than the largest part of the tip. Insert the tip from inside the bag, tape it up good, and you have a veritable fire hose of epoxy at your fingertips!

Lessons Learned

I like stumbling upon things that everyone else already knew about - it makes me think I'm smart.


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