It never fails,but I always have a little bit of Epo-Grip epoxie left over after doing a project. Usually it gets thrown away and wasted. A very expensive mistake. Well on Wed., after doing a mount I had about 2 oz. left over. I placed in the freezer to see what would happened. This morning(Fri) I took it out, let it warm up and stirred and bingo it smoothed and buttered right up. Going to use it today. This makes Epo-Grip even more valuable, NO WASTE. Has anyone else tried this and had the same results?
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Epoxies harden by a chemical interaction between the catalyst and resin sides that produce heat. When you slow down or eliminate this heat process from continuing, the epoxy will lie dormant. NOW, I would advise that you use it QUICKLY. Remember, some interaction had taken place BEFORE you froze it. Once you HEAT it, you accelerate a process that's already begun. Your work time is going to be greatly reduced. It doesn't stop and restart at zero. Also, you can speed the reaction up initially by warming both sides of the epoxy, but remember, HEAT ACCELERATES.
I seldom turn the heat up in the shop, my room temps are from 45 to 75 degrees. Mostly just the ambiant air temps. this gives me about three days before Epo-Grip two part kicks off. Once I am happy with the hair patterns, I kick up the heat and its set in hours not days.
I learned this with epoxies over two years ago, when I mounted a deer for the WTC on Sunday and entered it on Wednesday. JUst kick the heat up nd it sets very fast.