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When I took shop (woodworking) in high school, sometime around 1960, we used hot plates to melt horse hooves for really strong glue. Later as a research assistant in grad school, we used hot plates to heat epoxy for making slides of rock thin sections for the microscope.
So...............I am looking on the internet for hot plates and all I see is very expensive industrial hot plates, and a bit too expensive hot plates for cooking. I guess the cooking hot plates would work fine for warming epoxy.
My plan is to attempt to salvage some nice red cedar that is hard and cured, but badly cracked. I think that if the sticks are warmed next to the fireplace, and the structural epoxy is heated on a hot plate to lower the viscosity, that the epoxy will penetrate far more deeply into the sticks and make them workable.
Has anyone bought a hot plate in recent years?
Recommendations?
So...............I am looking on the internet for hot plates and all I see is very expensive industrial hot plates, and a bit too expensive hot plates for cooking. I guess the cooking hot plates would work fine for warming epoxy.
My plan is to attempt to salvage some nice red cedar that is hard and cured, but badly cracked. I think that if the sticks are warmed next to the fireplace, and the structural epoxy is heated on a hot plate to lower the viscosity, that the epoxy will penetrate far more deeply into the sticks and make them workable.
Has anyone bought a hot plate in recent years?
Recommendations?