On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:41:05 GMT, in alt.home.repair blueman
wrote:

After many years of playing with ordinary epoxy and Elmers woodfill, I
have graduated to Bondo

Any tips with how best to measure, mix, and handle the material.
The can I bought comes with a measuring cup and talks about using a
1.5" bead per cup.

- Do you mix it all together in the provided cup or do you use
something more disposable?

- How precise do you need to be in measuring out ratios of materials?

- Any tricks for applying and shaping the mixed material? (it seems to be very
sticky)

- Any way to get a longer work time then 3-5 minutes?

Thanks for the advice

This is insofar as finish, not working time -- and I have always worked with
external spackle, not Bondo, but the same may apply.

If you are doing a woodfill and it is fairly thick and dries slowly enough
to form a not-tacky top "skin" and then cures through, and if you have a
sample of the grained board are repairing then you can mash that into the
spot and transfer a grain impression. I only work on my own house, but I
did that several years back where i had two holes in the siding from a bird
after insects (may have been indicative of another problem but nothing came
of it) and after this little grain impression and the re-painting weathered
in, i could not tell where I had made the repair.


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