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Cascamite ( really ?)

I've been using Semforite, which appears to be a Cascamite clone, for a recent project where I needed a decent "open time". They advertise that it has an open time of about 1hr at 20C, and in practice that seemed to be the case. Mind you, I did chill the mixing water down to about 12C and kept the mix in the shade when it wasn't being spread and it led to a stress free glue up, with no premature "grab" before I could get it clamped up. It mixes smoothly and nicely if you follow the instructions, and big areas cover easily using a medium pile mini roller, which even cleans up afterwards.
 
Well Polyvine still have a permenant place on my S…t list and I will be interested to see any reports about performance of the new owners and their customer service.
 
of course im getting to this late.

which of these aerolites is the best? Im knocking up a cabinet for a friend which is all oak, just domino'd together due to time really so theres a lot of end grain joints. id quite like a decent open time so i can wrestle everything into position including some slightly cupped panels.

I assume its as strong if not stronger than titebond?

Also whats cleanup like?

cheers
 
Well if you’re worried about cleaning up, my experience of them both is that they are too liquid and dribble all over the place, it’s one of the reasons I always stick to Resin W , and never had a problem with open time either btw.
 
Cabinetman":3o3a8rmg said:
Well if you’re worried about cleaning up, my experience of them both is that they are too liquid and dribble all over the place, it’s one of the reasons I always stick to Resin W , and never had a problem with open time either btw.
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as in epoxy?
 
Everbuild is cheap, works as well as Titebond for my applications (MDF panelling), but is runnier IME. I apply it with a brush. MNt tried Resin W. All modern glues are pretty good. The original cascamite owners screwed a lot of people over, including me, and in my case modern ready mixed glues have superseded it.
 
Very interesting post as I purchased some Polyvine cascamite which I was not totally happy with regarding mixing or consistency etc.

It's a shame a well known product like Cascamite has had it's reputation ruined by a takeover company with flawed management.
 
the new ureka cascamite is fine, tried some out and it's just as good as the old one.
 
thetyreman":1zoqb9b7 said:
the new ureka cascamite is fine, tried some out and it's just as good as the old one.
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Same here. I did some laminating last week and it was fine.

As an aside, I put the glue on with one of those rollers with a hopper on it and it was very easy.

It's an experiment for a table I'm thinking of building. Hopefully more to follow on that at some point...
 
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