I'm working with two thread epoxies. One dries hard as rock overnight and the other hardens rather slowly and gets to very firm (not hard) after around a week. Air temperature around 70 at application, the lower 60's for the week.

Can anyone contrast the two attributes? Long term benefits or detractions of one over the other? Don't take into consideration other attributes like pot life or color, or the fact that if doing a repair the quick set would be an advantage.

I'm concerned that the very hard finish might be more prone to cracking while the softer finish might be more prone to marring during use.

Jeff Shafer

what are you using?

Bill,
I'd rather not let individual preferences influence the feedback, but instead am interested in the attributes, good and bad, of having a thread epoxy dry very hard or remain somewhat supple.

Jeff

I have teh one that takes a long time to get "hard", and have a few rods with it on it. When compared to my other rods that have the "quick" hardening epoxies,it resisted cracking much better. The rods were used in sub freezing temps this past winter, on about 15 trips, for heavy Inshore fishing. One rod I built for a friend, he reels with the rod pointed straigh tup high sticking style, if the epoxy on the guides didn't crack on that (one did, I probably didn't prep 100%) , they ain't gonna crack.

Well all I can say is that I have never herd of -say Permagloss cracking. The only time I have seen or herd of epoxy finish cracking is because of bad guide prep. As long as you are not using 5 min epoxy on your guides you should be fine.

I echo Bill. 5 minute epoxy will be full of bubbles, but a softer, not hard epoxy will not hold up. A hard finish will last. Keep using the one that hardens over night.

Unless you are throwing your rod in the bed of a pickup truck full of concete tools, the finish should hot become scratched or harmed.

Terry

Terry are you a concrete finnisher like myself?