The kids in our natural resources class are all making spinning rods. We have a drum drier that will hold 8 rods and a limited amount of time. The drier sits in our Ag shop which causes a lot of problems with dust, bugs and curious kids. I plan to try and finish the rods without using the drier by using a very light coat epoxy, letting it dry and top coating with Gudebrod 840. I would use permagloss if it weren't for the sovent. Will this work. Anybody got a better idea? 23 rods might make me loose my hair, luckly I don't have any to loose.

Thanks Jim

Can you make a simple frame that fits over the drum drier? If you can, you could cover it with Tack Cloth, that will keep dust and bugs out but still let the air circulate. I've used the Gudebrod 840 and you can just use that and ignore the epoxy completely.

I thought about just using 840. Some of these kids will do a great job wrapping and I think 840 would be fine. Some wrwps will resemble a birds nest and I think the epoxy will help the wrap stay together. The bottom line is too many rods for our drier given our time constraints.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2006 02:26PM by Jim Reinhardt.

OK, this will probably seem like heresy, but it will work and significantly speed your process. Go to a good hobby store and get a bottle of at least medium viscosity CA, thick would be even better. You can quickly get the wraps locked in place with that and you can spread it with a piece of plastic if needed. Then you can use the 840. Whatever you do do not use CA from someplace like Home Depot or WalMart and don't use accelerator.