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Epoxy Resin
Woody

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Woody

22. Oṣù Kẹsàn 2026NO
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Epoxy Resin

Pierre Castan, a Swiss chemist at the dental firm De Trey Frères, was looking for a resin for dentures. He reacted a phenol carrying two hydroxy groups with epichlorohydrin, then hardened the product with an acid anhydride, and got a hard, clear, unusually adherent solid. Ciba licensed it and sold it as Araldite; in the US Sylvan Greenlee developed epoxies independently. **US 2,324,483**, "Process of preparing synthetic resins", Castan, granted 20. July 1943, claims condensing "a polybasic carboxylic acid anhydride" with the product of "a phenol having at least two phenolic hydroxy groups and of an epichlorhydrine". It does not single out bisphenol A, the phenol most epoxies use today. **Epichlorohydrin is a carcinogen; you start from a two-part kit.** You glue pine lap joints at the right ratio and four wrong ones, then test hardness and break the joints.
Olùbẹ̀rẹ̀
2 hours plus 24 h cure

Ìlànà

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Cut the joint pieces

Saw ten pine strips 100 x 25 mm. Sand one face of each end with 120 grit and dust off. Label five pairs 1:1, 1.25:1, 1:1.25, 1.5:1 and 1:1.5.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

Pákó igi pinePákó igi pine1 ẹyọ
Bébà ÌfáBébà Ìfá1 ewé
Tépù ìbòmọ́lẹ̀Tépù ìbòmọ́lẹ̀1 ìyípo

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ayùn Ọwọ́Ayùn Ọwọ́
Ìwọ̀n IrinÌwọ̀n Irin
GègéGègé
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Measure by syringe

Gloves on. For each ratio draw resin and hardener in separate syringes (1:1 = 2 ml + 2 ml; 1.25:1 = 2.5 + 2; and so on) into its own cup. This assumes a 1:1-by-volume kit - scale to your label.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

Ẹpọ́ksì Ẹ̀yà MéjìẸpọ́ksì Ẹ̀yà Méjì25 ml

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ìbọ̀wọ́ NítírílìÌbọ̀wọ́ Nítírílì
Ìdìpọ̀ abẹ́rẹ́ àfàyọ̀Ìdìpọ̀ abẹ́rẹ́ àfàyọ̀
Àwọn kọ́ọ̀bù ìdàpọ̀ onípínÀwọn kọ́ọ̀bù ìdàpọ̀ onípín
Gílásì Ààbò Tí Ó Mọ́Gílásì Ààbò Tí Ó Mọ́
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Mix thoroughly

Stir each cup 2 minutes, scraping the walls and bottom. Unmixed streaks behave like a wrong ratio.

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ọ̀pá ÌrúwéỌ̀pá Ìrúwé
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Glue and pour

Spread each mix on the sanded ends of its pair, overlap them 25 mm and spring-clamp over wax paper. Pour the rest as a coin-sized puddle on wax paper beside it.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

Bébà oníìdàBébà oníìdà1 ewé

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ìdìmú oníkọ́rọ̀Ìdìmú oníkọ́rọ̀
5

Cure 24 hours

Leave everything at room temperature, 20 °C or warmer, for 24 hours. Cold slows the cure.
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Pencil hardness

Sharpen pencils 6B to 6H and flatten the tips on 400 grit. Push each at 45° across a puddle, from hard down, until one no longer scratches. Record that grade.

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Àkójọ Pénsùlù GíráfáìtìÀkójọ Pénsùlù Gíráfáìtì
Lúpù ÌgbégaLúpù Ìgbéga
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Break the joints

Clamp one strip of a joint in the vise and tap the free end sideways with the mallet until it breaks. Estimate how much of the bond face is torn wood.

Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:

Ìdìmú TábìlìÌdìmú Tábìlì
Òòlù rọ́bàÒòlù rọ́bà
Gílásì Ààbò Tí Ó Mọ́Gílásì Ààbò Tí Ó Mọ́
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Ratio, leftovers, results

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History & Context

**What the patent specifies:** a resin from a two-hydroxy phenol and epichlorohydrin, hardened by a polybasic acid anhydride. **Modern build (derived):** a two-part kit, most with an amine hardener that cures at room temperature. Epoxy became the glue that holds metal, the matrix of fibreglass and carbon-fibre parts, and the boat-builder's resin. Its limits: it yellows in sunlight, softens with heat, and uncured resin and hardener sensitise skin - which is why the gloves stay on every time.

Àwọn ohun-èlò

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