Just Add A Hair Dryer.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:02 pm
I needed to laminate some tip overlays [in a slight curve] for my new take down recurve.
After marking the limb tip profiles on to a timber off-cut and cutting the profile I was ready for the glue up.
As a rule I usually let the sun cure the epoxy on these small glue ups, but today being overcast it was not going to happen.
Generally I am a very patient person but for some reason I wanted to have the tip overlays glued on to the limbs this afternoon.
An empty carton doubled as the body for an oven, all I had to do was add the heat. With the hair dryer set on warm and low speed selected the dryer put out too much heat so it meant switching the unit on and off, by doing this the temperature in the carton remained between 120 and 160 degrees.
By sourcing a suitable heating element and fan a mini oven could be a viable alternative.
Daryl.
After marking the limb tip profiles on to a timber off-cut and cutting the profile I was ready for the glue up.
As a rule I usually let the sun cure the epoxy on these small glue ups, but today being overcast it was not going to happen.
Generally I am a very patient person but for some reason I wanted to have the tip overlays glued on to the limbs this afternoon.
An empty carton doubled as the body for an oven, all I had to do was add the heat. With the hair dryer set on warm and low speed selected the dryer put out too much heat so it meant switching the unit on and off, by doing this the temperature in the carton remained between 120 and 160 degrees.
By sourcing a suitable heating element and fan a mini oven could be a viable alternative.
Daryl.