Epoxy Adhesives
Epoxy Adhesive For Construction
Epoxy Adhesive for Manufacturing
What is the Definition of Epoxy Adhesive?
An adhesive is a material used to make something adhere. Adhere is
further defined as to stay attached.
For the purpose of this page once you add epoxy in front of the word adhesive, we define it as to make something
stay attached in a way that you must use destructive force in order to separate the two materials apart. You must destroy
one of the 2 surfaces attached, or the epoxy adhesive itself. In practice is
more likely than not that it will be easier to destroy one of the two
surfaces being bonded than to destroy the epoxy adhesive.
Just about all of our 100% solids epoxy are epoxy adhesives. They all meet that definition above. We will, for the
purpose of this document, only concentrate on the ones specifically designed
for use as epoxy adhesive.
The first step in assuring proper bonding is proper
surface preparation. If you have any
questions about surface preparation after reading this link
please be sure to contact Epoxy.com Technical Support (1-352-533-2167).
There are a number of versatile multi-purpose Epoxy adhesives that we
offer.
Thinner (Lower Viscosity) Epoxy Adhesives
Typically when using an epoxy as an adhesive you want something
that is thicker. The reason for this is that you want to completely
fill the differential of the fill between the 2 planes being bonded.
In other words you don't want any voids between the two surfaces being
bonded together. Typically that is easier to do with a thicker
material.
There are situation where you need a thinner material.
- The most common is
epoxy injection. . In
this case epoxy is pumped under pressure to adhere cracks in
concrete and wood back together.
- Another example is when you have two surfaces that you are bonding
that are near perfect in touching each other before you add the
adhesive, for example glass to glass. For advice on these kinds of
application please contact Epoxy.com Technical Support Department
(352-533-2167).
Thicker Epoxy Adhesive Gels
Product #2005 - is a high strength, high viscosity (thicker) material
Semi-Flexible Epoxy Gel Adhesive. This product is ideal where there might be
some differential movement of the two surfaces to be bonded. For example in
repairing grave
stone markers. It also is faster setting which can eliminate a lot of
down time waiting for the material to cure. This does however mean you have
a shorter pot-life.
There is an easy work around on a short pot-life, you just mix smaller
batches at a time.
Product #2006 - is a high strength epoxy adhesive gel. Product
#2006 has the advantage of having a longer pot-life than Product #2005
above. One typical use of this product is to bond hardened concrete to
harden concrete. It is also used commonly to seal cracks around ports and
crack for epoxy injection. Product #2005 Epoxy Adhesive Gel can also be used
to fill and smooth most construction materials on both the horizontal and on
the vertical.
Product #2704 Epoxy Gel Super Fast Cure
has the advantage of being super fast setting. It is ideal for sealing
cracks and walls in non-moving cracks. A typical use is when covering
concrete and wood joints before the installation of an epoxy coating or
epoxy flooring system,
Wet to Dry Epoxy Adhesive
Fresh concrete will not bond to hardened concrete. That causes all kinds
of problems.
Product #2007 Epoxy Wet to Dry Adhesive is the work-around to that
problem. It allows you to bond your new fresh wet concrete to the old
concrete. The bond strength is greater than the tensile strength of
either concrete. After the new concrete cures the new concrete member
created will act structurally like they were made as a single pour.
Under-Water Epoxy Adhesive
Working under water and at the splash zone during installation creates a
unique set of changes.
Product
#2707 was specifically designed to meet those challenges.
Epoxy Adhesive for Oil Saturated Concrete
Product #201
Oil Stop
Primer is not a stand-alone adhesive. It is a primer that will stick to
properly prepared oily concrete. It creates a bond to that oily
concrete. Then epoxy adhesives, coatings and flooring systems can
the bond to the cured oil stop primer.
For more information on epoxy adhesives and with your critical bonding
requirement, please contact Epoxy.com Technical Support Department.
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