When using bondo if it sets up and you don't get the ear right can you get the bondo out and what can you use to do it. I did a mulie and one ear just don't look right. And I didn't get all of the ear down in a small section. Thanks Jim
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Slowly open them back up. Halfway anyhow at a seminar so he could get glue up in there. Don't ask me why thats just the way he did it. He said For a competion ear for a axis deer or some other exotic one time he bondoed the ear reopened the ear removed the cartlidge(sp) then useed the bondoed ears for the liners? kinda goes to show how good it adheres though. He did not use resin mixed with his bondo if that matters.
Like I've said till I'm blue, Bondo is not an adhesive. It peels out, most times in one piece. If you tried that trick with Ear Magic or with Liquid Fast Set, you'd tear the ear to shreds because they ARE adhesives.
George.. or anyone for that matter...
I know that Bondo is NOT an adhesive but I was taught to use Bondo, FibreGlass chop and resin... isnt the resin like an adhesive?
I certainly am not debating this.. just curious if most who use Bondo add Resin too? I am totally new to taxidermy so please excuse my ignorance. I promise that with every question I ask, I get a little less ignorant...lol
Take care... Sam
Though the fiberglass resin seems sticky enough to be an adhesive, it really isn't. IF you notice, most times it's used as a "lamination". Once it became the buzzword of boat builders and airplane manufacturers, the invented yet another word: "DElamination". In taxidermy we call that drumming.
Bondo will attach some things, but it relies solely on the surface texture to hold two pieces together. On a cut form, the supplier will tell you to insure that all dust is removed between the surfaces before using the Bondo. That's because those tiny nooks and crannies are used as attachment points to hold the form together.
And Sam, I love your attitude. You'll go far. Just hang in there.
Thanks for the extra ? sam helped out thank you Gorge/ Joe
doesn't have adhesive powers try getting it off the door going into the kitchen
I have used bondo a lot. Seems ot me that the drumming in ones ears would be more because of lack of experiance and in forcing it into the ear and streching the ear skin too much. The bondo does stick to the ear skin, if you clean the oils off with some degreaser.
If you screw up and don't get the ear the way you want, pull it apart fast, after the bondo sets up the rest of the way and cools, it will be very hard to peel the skin off. Of course you can wet the skin down again and it will help take the bondo off.
Just let the bondo stick in the hair until it cools too, it will not come off without breaking the hair.
I don't think I agree with George on it not being an adhesive, as it will work on a lot of things, it sticks, it holds, and it does not come apart, what else would you call it?
If you have oils on it, then you have coated it with a release, which does not allow it to stick.
It may not be the best adhesive, but it works. Maybe not for everybody. The other items George stated, do work a ton better though. I just don't think we need to be arguing about weather a resin is a adhesive. Depending on who is working with it and how, it makes perfectly good liners and has fo a long time.
I am not trying to start anything here either.
I know George has a lot of experiance and knowlege and helps out alot here.