We have used Ronseal wood filler on a project but my partner forgot to add the catalyst. Will the filler ever dry without it or do we have to strip it all out?
Cheers, Chris

On 14/08/2015 10:45, Huge wrote:
On 2015-08-14, wrote:
We have used Ronseal wood filler on a project but my partner forgot to add the catalyst. Will the filler ever dry without it or do we have to strip it all out?

You have to strip it out. It's doesn't "dry", the setting process is a
chemical one, mediated by the catalyst.



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We have used Ronseal wood filler on a project but my partner forgot to add
the catalyst. Will the filler ever dry without it or do we have to strip it
all out?
Cheers, Chris



Some I had leftover hardened in the pack without catalyst, but I think that
took about 3 years!

Mike

On 14/08/2015 10:23, wrote:

We have used Ronseal wood filler on a project but my partner forgot to add the catalyst.
Will the filler ever dry without it or do we have to strip it all out?
Cheers, Chris

It won't dry out on a realistic timescale but you might get away with
adding a trace of catalyst to it and surface mixing to start the
reaction. It is a free radical polymerisation with a peroxide starter.

The resin has inhibitor in which will eventually run out and allow
atmospheric oxygen to start the reaction but it may take a year of two.

If it is anywhere demanding strip it out and start again!

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On 14/08/15 10:23, wrote:
We have used Ronseal wood filler on a project but my partner forgot to add the catalyst. Will the filler ever dry without it or do we have to strip it all out?
Cheers, Chris

it will never 'dry'. It might 'set' in a decade or two.
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Can I buy just the catalyst or use another hardener?

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On 03/06/2021 19:34, Tim Walton wrote:

Can I buy just the catalyst or use another hardener?

More easily than you will be able to find this 5 year old thread again
ok HoH I bet :-)

https://www.wickes.co.uk/Ronseal-Hig...--30g/p/117943




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