Kevin Zito
KNIFE MAKER
How do I pump epoxy into things like mosaic pins and handle holes? Thanks
Thanks!Get yourself a big syringe. They sell them in auto parts stores to bleed brakes. Get some plastic hose and use that to suck the epoxy thru the tube. Don't suck the epoxy into the syringe then you can reuse it over and over, you just replace the cheap tubing. Hope this makes sense.
You can also get the syringes at pet stores and feed stores.Thanks!
Use a hand vacuum pump for bleeding brake lines and various sizes of clear rubber tubing. Much cleaner and more efficient pulling power than syringes.
Better still.......I'll give you mine and all my mosaic pin making stock.
If I was to do this I think I would put something between the vaccum and the pin stock. Just so I wouldn't suck any epoxy into the pump?
Should I just cram the epoxy in with my fingers?Use a hand vacuum pump for bleeding brake lines and various sizes of clear rubber tubing. Much cleaner and more efficient pulling power than syringes.
Better still.......I'll give you mine and all my mosaic pin making stock.
I’m not interested in making mosaic pins... I was thinking that I needed a hand pump and an accompanying technique to squeeze epoxy through all the spacers and down the tang hole.
Awesome! Exactly what I needed!You can glue your guard and spacers on first then your handle block on separately after that. If you heat your epoxy up, it will pour very well.....no syringe or pump necessary.