Ear Adhesive question

[MarkB]

I am not on any Taxidermy Net so have an open question to all the taxidermists on here.

Shop and I use the Wesco Ear Adhesive two part. Over the years we have accumulated 10 quarts of resin and no hardener, this due to guess measuring of equal parts? Boss/Buddy asked me to investigate a hardener so we may use some of our resin tubs.

Has anyone found a store/place or product of hardener only?

I did a couple hrs searching but only found the two part must purchase options. Is there another hardener that works for the Wesco Ear Adhesive resin?

Thanks

MB

 

[Ivorygrip]

I am not on any Taxidermy Net so have an open question to all the taxidermists on here.

Shop and I use the Wesco Ear Adhesive two part. Over the years we have accumulated 10 quarts of resin and no hardener, this due to guess measuring of equal parts? Boss/Buddy asked me to investigate a hardener so we may use some of our resin tubs.

Has anyone found a store/place or product of hardener only?

I did a couple hrs searching but only found the two part must purchase options. Is there another hardener that works for the Wesco Ear Adhesive resin?

Thanks

MB

To my knowledge the adhesive can only be bought together with both parts unfortunately.
I’m sure you could experiment with a couple generic hardeners from Amazon or online somewhere and see what happens…
As to experimenting with different hardeners I have not done that but I do know that bondo filler hardener will not cure bondo fiberglass resin and vice versa (when mixing each hardener has to be used)

 

[Firebird]

Call 1-800-279-7985 (McKenzie/wasco) and click on the “talk to a taxidermist” option or whatever similar it gives you. They might be able to help.
I would buy some fiberglass hardener at a local hardware store and test That on a small batch, that just might work and can be bought separately

 

[MarkB]

Thanks for reply's guys. I have called McKenzie and Research and asked but they had no real answers other than buy the 2 quart kit as that's all they sell. No real help but I can understand they want to sell product, not give out any ideas to reduce sales. I have searched hrs on web and no place sells the parts separate. Sounds like a company thing.

I was hoping somebody did the trial and error on finding a hardener that works.

Think it best to tell buddy its hopeless and throw out the quarts of resin.

Thanks

Mark