Loctite Epoxt

I do not know how long it will last, but I do know this. I had a currly maple handle guled up on a hidden tang knife that needed to come off. I beat it on brick, hit it with a 3 pound hammer on my anvil and eded up having to clamp in a vise and use a chisel to remove it with. The handle had been on for a week or 2.

I think probably the G flex and Acraglass are probably better, but I was impressed at how difficult the handle was to get off.
 
My experience with it is fairly limited. I bought a small "dual-tube" syringe of it a couple of years ago. The first project I used it on (gluing up two pieces of micarta for scales) popped loose along the glue joint. I just threw away the tube and got a refill on my West resin. What caused the failure of the Loctite? Hard to tell - could have been my surface prep, could have been the stress on the joint during shaping, could have been the epoxy... who knows? I do know that I've never had that happen with Acraglas, G-Flex, West, or System3...

TedP
 
I've tried it in the past, and it was terrible. Easily the worst epoxy that I have ever used.
 
I use the Loctite 1 hour epoxy- the longer curing ones are stronger. I believe the 30 min. Loctite did very well in the "Glue Wars" thread. I works well for me when I have to get some at the hardware store in a pinch. T-88 would be my preference.
 
Works very well for me.
On carbon steel I pre treat with Ospho.
A lot of folks use Devcon 2 hr, and I won't touch it- had a whole string of scale failures that I finally cured by throwing out the Devcon and using the Loctite.
I actually use it because it's what works best out of the materials locally available. In theory, a slow cure is going to be better than a fast cure, but in practice that's not what I've found.
One thing to watch is that all epoxies that I've worked with are quite sensitive to heat. If you have big rivets to sand down, heavy stock removal on the scales, or especially blade/tang profiling to do after glue-up, don't let any of it get more than warm!
I'm sure there are better epoxies for knifemaking, but on the other hand I haven't had any failures of the Loctite when I do my part.
 
Unless I am tacking something together to screw it down later on, I never use any resin that cures in less than 24 hours.
T-88 is my go-to resin. There are many other great SLOW CURE resins on the market.

If you can't wait for the resin to cure overnight and be strong, knifemaking probably is too slow a hobby for you ,anyway.
 
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