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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #25 on: April 07, 2015, 03:21:21 AM »


Apologies,it starts in Genesis 1-3 but never mind. Just trying to lighten the day!

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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #26 on: April 07, 2015, 04:18:31 AM »
have been giving the thread on epoxy repairs a bit of thought :doh: was involved with the build of a Vari Eeze [Bert Rutan ] design composite aircraft, some years ago and this was almost pre kevlar and all the exotic stuff we have today but my point is on reflection the addition of a "filler" I would have thought would add to the strength. The nature of FRP and all that has been derived from it since Wright Airfield 1944 [1st used I think] is for the particles ,filler, filings to bond together forming a "matrix" type effect hope this is not too far off fact this is  my view, any comments.
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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #27 on: April 07, 2015, 04:31:38 AM »
Sorry forgot, my main point further to my blurb above. Part of the Vari eeze build was the use of a powder that was referred to as "micro balloon " this was a white powder that was mixed with the epoxy and then used as a filler and glue. Precursor to castor sugar, bi-carb powder we see used with super glue these days. Perhaps it was castor sugar or the like!!
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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #28 on: April 07, 2015, 05:16:48 AM »


Apologies,it starts in Genesis 1-3 but never mind. Just trying to lighten the day!

Thats cool! :beer:
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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #29 on: April 07, 2015, 05:18:24 AM »
Sorry forgot, my main point further to my blurb above. Part of the Vari eeze build was the use of a powder that was referred to as "micro balloon " this was a white powder that was mixed with the epoxy and then used as a filler and glue. Precursor to castor sugar, bi-carb powder we see used with super glue these days. Perhaps it was castor sugar or the like!!
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I think body filler used to be polyester resin with ground marble mixed in? :scratch:
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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #30 on: April 07, 2015, 05:51:00 AM »
Actually, John, you could choose  between flour, slate dust and sawdust. Sorry to p** on the parade but I was a bit nearer than most. OK, one had to mill in 'Aerosil' to make things snotty but 'fun, innit?'

Earlier, fillers were probably nothing more than chalk or Paris Plaster with boiled linseed oil and a bit of cobalt nathenate.

We( I was all of 11 or no more than 12) made up a mixture of Paris Plaster, animal glue and torn newpaper shreddings into relief maps during the War. My headmaster was the Captain Mainwaring of the local Dad's Army! Still got me little Scout axe for diggiing out Ferrite bombs( Iron fillings, Aluminium turnings and magnesium). Fun putting them out!

But I digress. So what about all this fabric stuff? Most of that was celluoid dissoved in acetone on Irish Linen or ours was.
Filler was red lead dope and then aluminium dope. Makes a helluva blaze mixture.

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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #31 on: April 07, 2015, 07:13:14 AM »
Sorry forgot, my main point further to my blurb above. Part of the Vari eeze build was the use of a powder that was referred to as "micro balloon " this was a white powder that was mixed with the epoxy and then used as a filler and glue. Precursor to castor sugar, bi-carb powder we see used with super glue these days. Perhaps it was castor sugar or the like!!
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Microballoons is still available. Used as a light weight filler on RC model aircraft and such.

I think it is made up of microscopic glass beads

http://www.easycomposites.co.uk/products/resin-gel-silicone/fillers-and-additives/glass-bubbles-microballoons-microspheres.aspx

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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #32 on: April 07, 2015, 08:57:42 AM »
There are microspheres and microballoons, the red variety made of Bakelite resin I believe. They don't add strength. They lighten the weight of resin mix by making it a mechanical foam. They also make it easer to sand or work when cured, and are usd to fair a surface, though don't necessarily provide a fine finish when used alone.

They and other fillers also reduce the expense of the resin. Commonly used with epoxy are colloidal silica (heavy and much more difficult to sand, but abrasion resistant as a result), microfibers (generally mlled cotton fibers), and in the 70's when I had my boatshop, milled asbestos fibers, which did add strength supposedly. Also graphite powder, which was primarily used not as a lubricant for a molded bearing (though I did wonder about the possibilities) but as a UV inhibitor. Epoxies are usually quite susceptible to UV degradation.

FRP is fiber reinforced plastic, and that is made up differently than fillers generally, and usually involves saturating a mat, cloth, or unidiectional tow of organic textiles (linen, cotton, etc.) or synthetics (glass, carbon, polypropylene, Dynel, Kevlar, etc.) with a resin (polyester, vinylester, epoxy, etc.) in a matrix.

Fillers and fabrics can both be used in combination, but they have different functions, for the most part. There are some reinforcing fiber fillers, like chopped strand glass, but a FRP product made of those tends to be heavier and have lower mechanical qualities than a laminated cloth or tow version. An FRP boat hull laid up with a chopper gun is weak, heavy, and brittle compared to a proper cloth laminated version.

Decks of small craft have been covered in cotton duck and paint (a resin) for ages, and paper was laminated with varnish into fine canoes well over a century ago -- See Nathaniel Bishop's Voyage in the Paper canoe. I'm sure references to similar processes can be traced back a couple millennia.
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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #33 on: May 28, 2015, 08:19:06 PM »
A nice bit of cartonnage..


...somewhat like paper mache being layers of papryrus, linen etc mixed with plaster.  Last for a thousand years, or several thousand.
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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #34 on: May 28, 2015, 10:35:21 PM »
That's quite beautiful!
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Re: Metal repairs using epoxy metal and other resin based products
« Reply #35 on: May 29, 2015, 03:03:41 AM »
Seems to be a shame but we have lost the ability to use simple products.  I was thinking about the use of an egg or a bottle of milk and how much they contributed to art and science.

Again, I was thinking of a potato in the modern medicine.

We should learn to read- you know the sort of thing that needed the skins of 40 cows.

or aren't people taught anymore?

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