replying to SteveB, Dougie Quick wrote:
JB weld in particular seems to take much longer than the other epoxy products
I have used ...but man is the stuff tough and durable! I used it to fill in a
sharp dent in a steel frame and I had a heck of a time getting it to stay put!
I would shape it with the putty knife just right and come back half hour
later and it had sagged ...over and over again I did this until it "went off"
and set ...by then some had sagged and remained sagged so I had to add more
and wait ANOTHER day or so! Would have been effort ahead to rotate the frame
(which would have been difficult) so gravity held in the jb weld! ....even
then it would have taken multiple applications ....on a more positive note the
repair was like flawless finally! The stuff is fairly easy to file and sand
...and once painted? The dent was GONE from view!

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On 02/12/2017 04:44 PM, Dougie Quick wrote:
JB weld in particular seems to take much longer than the other epoxy
products
I have used ...but man is the stuff tough and durable!

JB KwikWeld sets in 6 minutes. The tensile strength is lower but if you
were filling a dent that may not matter.

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replying to SteveB, Dougie Quick wrote:
JB weld in particular seems to take much longer than the other epoxy products
I have used ...but man is the stuff tough and durable! I used it to fill in a
sharp dent in a steel frame and I had a heck of a time getting it to stay put!
I would shape it with the putty knife just right and come back half hour
later and it had sagged ...over and over again I did this until it "went off"
and set ...by then some had sagged and remained sagged so I had to add more
and wait ANOTHER day or so! Would have been effort ahead to rotate the frame
(which would have been difficult) so gravity held in the jb weld! ....even
then it would have taken multiple applications ....on a more positive note the
repair was like flawless finally! The stuff is fairly easy to file and sand
..and once painted? The dent was GONE from view!

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Boy I bet that added a lot of structural strength to the frame! Couple
coats, sanded, then some undercoating really fixed it. Parts alignment is
crappy but oh well.

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replying to Dougie Quick, J Tag wrote:
My buddy once used JB to fix the crack in the block of his ttr 125 dirtbike
hahahaha

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