Just wondering what you all use to mix your rod bond in? I was using some old small plastic solo cups with smooth bottoms but all I can find now is the wax paper type or they have ridges all over the sides.

Thanks, Mike

measuring spoons

Two Popsicle sticks and eyeball it. I fold it together on a small piece of cardboard or waxwd paper (anything will work)

Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!

I just scoop out portions with 2 popsicle sticks (one for resin, one for hardener) onto a piece of cardboard and mix away.
Pretty scientific huh!

Regards
Dave

Fishing is Life the rest is just Details

I use a plastic pallette knife to dip out equal parts of epoxy and hardener (wiping with alcohol and paper towel between hardener and epoxy) onto a cheap paper plate where I paste the two parts together with the same knife and also apply the mixture with the same pallette knife. Pallette knives available at either Wally-World or Hobby Lobby. Leave the plate on the bench to check the next day to make sure it hardened properly. Never had a failure with Rod Bond. Just mix equal size looking blobs of each.

Gotta love the ol' spatula here! I use @#$%&'s spat and do as Lynn mentions above. The Rod Bond is quite forgiving about being an "exact" 50/50 mix. Great product and it's really been one of the more notable additions to my rod building in the last several years.

I mix on cardboard squares about 4" x 4" with the same spat, just like Lynn outlined above.

Putter
Williston, ND

Randy Parpart (Putter) Wrote:
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> I mix on cardboard squares about 4" x 4" with the
> same spat, just like Lynn outlined above.
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> Putter
> Williston, ND


You measure your cardboard for mixing??????
I just rip the lid off a box & have at er' LOL


Regards
Dave

Fishing is Life the rest is just Details

I've got a friend that does cabinets and countertops. I took a bunch of his scrap plastic laminate and cut hundreds of 5" x 7" cards. They're flat and rigid. Great for mixing Rod Bond, 5 minute epoxy, pouring ThreadMaster on to...



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Better to have and not need than to need and not have.

Mike,if you noticed all the responses said they mixed it on something not in something.Mixing on a flat surface allows you to properly fold the two parts together.Mixed in a cup they will not get mixed well enough.Using a spatula spread the mixture out and fold it back together multiple times.This will ensure the best mix possible.

Freddwhy (Rapt-Ryte)

I save the old cans that tuna comes in, they are shallow and a good size diameter. I cam mis well in them and them chuck em to recycling when done. Works for me.

"If you don't know where you are going then any road will get you there"

I stole a set of little measuring spoons out of a drawer in the kitchen ( she hasn't missed them yet). I just guess how much I need to mix for the job and use the closest size spoon. Dip it out ,level it off on the rim of the jar,scrape it out with a spatula onto a piece of cardboard.Clean spoon with paper towel and dip the other one. Mix throughly and apply. Clean up spoon and spatula with alcohol and paper towel. Leave excess piled up so you will know when it is cured. Great stuff.

Like David Orr...I require three things to properly mix Rod Bond...1 popsickle stick (broken in half, one part for resin & one part for hardener)...1 piece of scrap cardboard (got to use those old rod component shipping containers for something), and 1 good eyeball.

Plop out a couple mounds of Rod Bond parts that look pretty close to the same size & mix away. It's so easy a caveman can do it.

Jay

I only mix small batches for smaller rods, but a card from a deck of plastic coated poker cards (from the dollar store) and a popsicle stick does it for me!

Rog

Measuring spoons. I saved a piece of marble from a tile job I did around the house. It makes a great surface to mix on.

I have my Rod Bond in two 60CC syringes that work great to store and meter for mixing. I mix on index cards.

Stan Grace
Helena, MT
"Our best is none too good"

Dave Orr Wrote:

> You measure your cardboard for mixing??????
> I just rip the lid off a box & have at er'

I bet Putter marbles his cardboard prior to measuring.

LOL!! I'm busted; Neil's right. I save the "about" 4"x4" pieces that I've already used for mixing marbling on and those are what I use to mix the Rod Bond on... stiffer yet, then. LOL!!

Putter
Williston, ND

Paper plates for mixing. I use popsicle sticks and or toothpicks for mixing and applying. When done, fold the paper plate in half and throw in the garbage.

Wayne

I have a shoe box with hundreds of discarded old photos. I mix everthing on them. Usually cut them in half and I mix on the picture side. For wonderful, forgiving Rod Bod , I use a slightly flexible spatula I got as a gift a couple years ago at the Big Rod Show. I scoop out a gob, plant it on the photo, wipe the spatula a couple times with denatured alcohol and then scoop out another gob from the other jar. I eyeball the gobs for equality. I stir them a little in the beginning just to get one mixed lump, then I smash and roll them together for about 30 secs. Pretty slick and easy and I have never had the mix not harden. It's also kind of fun (LOL) sometimes to see the photo again when the rod bond has harden on it.

I am sort of like Putter, in that I use the harden pieces of left over threadmaster/flexcoat/LS supreme to fold rod bond on. No pigments in mine, but it gets one more use out of the stuff before it is tossed.