Devcon 52345 Plastic Steel Epoxy - 1 oz. 2-Part Tube

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.

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

Great stuff been using for many years, bedding rifles

We bought an SKB keyboard case in which the little keyboard holders kept coming off. Sure we could return it to the SKB factory for repair under their lifetime warranty but the shipping was half what the case cost. So I slathered on a bunch of this epoxy and the little corner holders haven't budged in at least two years, even though we store the keyboard in its case vertically in our closet!

Always works and and is better than the syringe type

It seems to be a good general epoxy product, but the marketing/labeling can be very misleading. You often hear about using Devcon Plastic Steel Putty #10110 for rifle bedding, they also make a thinner version #10210. It would be easy to assume that this product also called ":Devcon Plastic Steel Epoxy" is the same or similar product but it's much more complex. It turns out that the product here, is not even manufactured by the same company, and is not equivalent. So the Devcon industrial 10110 and 10210 products are manufactured by ITW Performance Polymers, however the Devcon "Home" versions of Plastic Steel Epoxy are manufactured by a different group ITW Global and they are not the equivalent product. This was confirmed by ITW Performance Polymers. Beyond that the two versions of the "Home" Devcon Plastic Steel Epoxy are also different, the syringe version is thinner and contains no powdered metal in it. The 1oz tube version here does contain metal in the mixture. I was unable to get exact specs from ITW Global on these "Home" versions of Plastic Steel, but at the very least the syringe version is almost certainly a vastly inferior product from durability, tensile and compressive strength to Devcon 10110. Not that it can't work for bedding, but if you were going to use it, I would only use this version not the syringe version, and for the price I'd just get the Devcon 10110 or Marine-Tex.