It can be hot enough that it even melts a plastic mixing cup. Bill Nye the Science Guy will tell you that when mixing the two compounds to create Epoxy, there’s a chemical reaction that gives off heat ( especially with large batches). The layers upon layers of painter’s tape decided to go on strike and the adhesive gave up its grab and dumped the contents onto my custom made workbench. Then I sprung a major leak and my parents could hear me unleashing a stream of profanities that would even make my wife ( she cusses like a sailor, especially while driving) blush. Well that was my system… until I was pouring epoxy into a seam joint I was filling on the “ Tuxedo Desk” while I was casually on the phone with my parents. You slap layers of tape over the hole on the other side and pour away. The same is true if you’re filling a void. You’ll get little leaks through the pores ( of the pour… homonym grammar joke!) that soak through so you use tape to stop the flow. My normal process for epoxy pours generally includes using a generous amount of painter’s tape on the back of whatever surface I’m pouring into. There’s a problem though, Epoxy is just generating too much heat for me to contain this budding relationship. It’s no wonder my wife has been sporadically dropping in during shop time. Don’t worry, it’s mostly professional ( mostly). From live edge desk inlays to cutting boards, epoxy and I have gotten a ton of one on one time in my shop recently. I can’t take my eyes off of it when I use it on my projects. Don’t tell my wife, but I have eyes for someone else.
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