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radius

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2008, 03:19:53 am »
grant, do you need a heat box for that?

grantmac

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2008, 05:34:47 am »
Nope. Been leaving the laminations in my unheater shop overnight and floortillering the next day. So far no glue-related problems. It's made for laminated cedar strip canoes appearently, and those don't fit in hotboxes too well ;D

Offline Stonedog

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2008, 09:17:55 am »
Well, I order some thru 3 Rivers yesterday.....using paypal.

Shipped to my door in KY, a whopping $18.20!  I have 5 pieces of hickory bakcing a two Ipe boards........

I am just going to rip the Ipe to Size and glue 'em all up in one go!

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Offline Pat B

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2008, 10:08:28 am »
Also, Weldwood Plastic Resin is a urea glue, similar to Urac. It comes in powder form and you add water to mix. Cures like Urac and once cured I couldn't tell the difference. When I bought it(from Ace Hardware) it was cheap(about $5 for 1# tub). I only used it a few times but never had any problems with it. It doesn't have a shelf life like Urac as long as it isn't exposed to moisture.      Pat
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2008, 10:26:35 am »
Just ordered a couple of pints from Nelson. I use one and keep the other in the frig, about $10 a pint shipped, much cheaper than any other place. A quart is too much glue unless you make bows for a living so I recommend buying it a pint at a time.

radius

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2008, 11:16:20 am »
grant, is it G2 you are talking about?

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2008, 03:00:28 pm »
Here's a link to Nelson's site, shoulda posted it sooner.

Actually Dano you did post the link sooner, but PA doesn't allow links to sites that compete with supporters of PA so I deleted the link.  Justin

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2008, 03:01:09 pm »
It's definately NOT G2 ;D

Offline Apex Predator

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #23 on: June 18, 2008, 05:58:18 pm »
If you order from Nelson, be sure to select the option with the hardener.  Somewhere in the description it specified that all of it came with hardener, not so.  I got mine and had to turn around and order $1.50 worth of hardener and pay like $9.00 to ship it!
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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2008, 10:11:01 pm »
grant:  why do you say NOT like that???  is g2 bad stuff in your opinion??

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #25 on: June 19, 2008, 03:55:40 am »
grant:  why do you say NOT like that???  is g2 bad stuff in your opinion??

Just emphasizing that they are very different products. One is an epoxy and the other is a glue. Supposedly these glues can be used with much higher clamping pressures then epoxy without starving the joint. The counter man at IPP was really knowledgeable when I wa picking it out. He recommend I stay away from the epoxies if I was going to use screw clamps.
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            Grant

radius

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #26 on: June 19, 2008, 03:58:30 am »
hm...what's it called, so i can check it out when i go next...i've had good success with g2, though...clamps or tubes...

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #27 on: June 19, 2008, 04:07:05 am »
About shipping glue...I have ordered a bunch of stuff including urac 185 over here to Japan with no problems, shouldnt be a problem for the closer places either I suppose.....


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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #28 on: June 19, 2008, 11:40:35 am »
I'll take a picture of the stuff later today, it'll be in my warbow thread in the build-along section.
     Cheers,
           Grant

radius

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Re: Urac 185
« Reply #29 on: June 19, 2008, 11:46:45 am »
thanks...and i hope that warbow works out for you...btw, have you tried any douglas fir yet?  Where I work, there's so much vertical grained douglas fir it'd make you sick.  One of these days i'll pull a couple scraps out of there ( i mean, GOOD scraps) and test it as a core wood.  We have all the great woodworking tools, so I can use a jointer to taper the core wood, a thickness sander for parallel laminations...oh, i am in heaven.