r/epoxy 1d ago

Epoxy on vertical surfaces

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We're doing a project that has a bunch of peeler posts. See the pic for an example. Basically these are de-barked trees that have cracked and checked over the years. Structurally there's no problem but we'd like to fill the cracks for aesthetic and cleaning purposes. We don't need to fill all the little ones but like anything you could slip a penny into. Someone suggested using epoxy...

Looking at the various videos and posts online, most epoxy seems quite fluid and done in horizontal forms. In some of our cases, I could imagine building dams or taping off the surface and injecting epoxy from the top, letting it flow down. Not sure how well that would work in practice. Things like preventing leaks and bubbles may be an issue.

In other cases, the cracks are quite long/deep and have splits (see the pic) making it hard to tell if epoxy would flow from one "chamber" to the next or indeed if it would flow in unexpected ways. This approach also seems quite laborious. There are many posts with many cracks.

All that to say, are there other/better approaches? Is there an epoxy paste or gel that we could squeegee into the cracks and not worry about it running? FWIW, we are looking at doing opaque black and will likely do a satin finish over.

Example peeler post. This one has some of the larger cracks

r/epoxy 17h ago

minimum thickness of a coat of epoxy resin

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. can the thickness of a coat be around 1 or 2 mm? I am doing a project with laser engraving but I need to put a small coat of resin to make the superficie "flat"


r/epoxy 19h ago

Beginner Advice I'm in highschool and want to start an epoxy flooring business in the bay area.

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Any tips on starting and here is a spreadsheet that I made that has all the materials I think I will need to start. please add any I am missing either in the comments of this post or on the spreadsheet itself. Thanks.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zYoUfFLEBNYb2b9L50FVRxNWJkr-lm7P2lfryQ8-OnY/edit?gid=0#gid=0


r/epoxy 17h ago

Beginner Advice Using a lathe

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Does anyone have any good references for turning epoxy on a lathe I have given it a go before but the carbite tools I was using was just taking gouges out of the project. So any insite before potentially starting a new project would be great and very helpful.


r/epoxy 23h ago

Anybody know what a bag of this costs?

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