Devcon Plastic Steel Epoxy, Dark Gray, 1 Ounce, 52345

As a hobby machinist, I had chucked an end mill into the collet and failed to tighten it enough apparently. I was blind milling a very long and deep pocket in a bar or steel clamped on top of a sacrificial piece of steel on the bed. Started cutting with the coolant flowing nicely. Everything was going well until I felt a vibration. The collet had worked loose. The end mill had dropped right INTO the mill bed. Starting from zero at 5/8" diameter to about and 1/8" deep at almost four inches long divot. GRRRRR!!!!! Asked some friends on a gun form what to do. This product was the answer. Did it fill in my goof to where the machine was fully useable? Provided I don't try to make that small area fully support a small, clamped work piece, OH YES!!! Cleaned the coolant, swarf and oil out. swabbed and blew it out with the air compressor and let it dry Did the same with a small amount of acetone, let it dry and masked off the area. Worked a nice, mounded blob into the rut and let it dry overnight. Very carefully filed it down flush with a flat, bastard mill file. Checked the finished height with a scraper mounted to the quill. Good to go. lightly touched it over with fine Scotchbright pad to smooth and blend, then back to the races! I'm still a bit embarrassed, but the mill is OK. :) . JB Weld would have been probably just as good, but thought I'd give this stuff a chance. No regrets. Great product.

Rock hard, low shrink, great bond -everything desired in a bedding compound. Long pot time so no need to panic and be in a rush. 'Plastic' state reached in about three hours when easy trim time occurs. Hard like a rock in about eight hours and full cure out in about 24 hours. I like Devcon Plastic Steel Epoxy and will continue to use it for bedding.

Quality, dries quick quality, sticks on like plastic steel. It saved me $480 sticking a part together like new.

I got acquainted with this product where I used to work. I already knew of the super bonding properties of this product. I used it to attach the knob on my oxygen control on my acetylene/oxygen outfit due to the splines in the knob were stripped out and the knob would just spin and not do anything. Now it works perfectly. Great product !

devcon is a very good product if used per intructions