Timeline for Salad bowl split?
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| Sep 21, 2018 at 7:01 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 6:34 | answer | added | Caleb | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 20:40 | comment | added | SaSSafraS1232 | I don't think you'd need to submerge the bowl to degrease it. Just soak a rag in degreaser or TSP and run it through the crack. Or, if you can get something in there (sandpaper or a file or even a drillbit or nail) you might also just physically abrade the insides of the crack, exposing some fresh surface. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 17:50 | comment | added | Graphus | @AstPace, yes any oil inside the split would be a problem, my draught Answer covers degreasing and the possibility that normal cleaning procedures won't be successful. It is possible to thoroughly degrease the whole area but it would need mass quantities of solvent (for complete immersion) which hardly seems viable unless the OP really loves the bowl. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 17:43 | comment | added | Graphus | @SaSSafraS1232, if you need to pour then yes you probably do need to buy one of the epoxies with a flowing liquid consistency. But this sounds like a small job where pouring wouldn't be needed. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:30 | comment | added | Ast Pace | @Graphus The crack is contaminated with oil.Will epoxy adhere to an oiled surface? | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:59 | comment | added | SaSSafraS1232 | @Graphus I haven't found any of the cheap hardware store epoxies that are thin enough to pour. They all seem to be about the thickness of toothpaste. I'd agree that there's no reason to buy a whole $100 set of epoxy for one fix, though. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:57 | comment | added | Graphus | An epoxy fill as suggested by @SaSSafraS1232 is what I was thinking of as the alternative to glueing the split close. Just want to emphasise something mentioned in some other Answers here, that there's no need for an expensive epoxy for fills like this, cheapie epoxies are fine. The one I use costs the equivalent of about two bucks (literally the cheapest on the market here) and as far as I and other users can tell it's just as good as the name-brand 5-minute epoxies we used to buy. If you already have a high-end epoxy by all means use that , but if buying new cheap will generally work well. | |
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| Aug 16, 2018 at 22:22 | comment | added | SaSSafraS1232 | Personally, I wouldn't try to force the crack closed. The stress will still be there, so you'd just be asking for another crack somewhere else. I'd put tape on both sides and pour a tinted epoxy (West or Entropy) into the crack. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 22:21 | comment | added | SaSSafraS1232 | Possible duplicate of How to effectively fix a crack in a turned bowl | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 21:35 | comment | added | Graphus | I have an Answer ready to go but had a thought at the last minute, can you close the split using pressure? If you can't the most obvious conventional repair (working some glue into the split, then clamping) won't work. In which case filling the split may be the most viable option, although it isn't an invisible repair much of the time. | |
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| Aug 16, 2018 at 20:38 | history | asked | Stephen Murphy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |