News: Top reasons why using Six10 epoxy can help you work faster and better
If you need strength and adhesion in a hurry, or if you’re concerned about mixing epoxy accurately or don’t have the right tools for the job, WEST SYSTEM® Six10® Thickened Epoxy Adhesive could be the answer you’re looking for as it’s a pre-thickened epoxy adhesive.
WEST SYSTEM Six10 is a two-part, pre-thickened epoxy adhesive, ideal for stitch-and-glue boat construction, fibreglass laminate repair and general bonding. It combines the toughness of G/flex with the strength and stiffness of our WEST SYSTEM epoxy, and is ideal for use on wood, metals and composites.
Although some people are apprehensive about using pre-mixed adhesives, the WEST SYSTEM name on any product is a guarantee of quality you can rely on. Here’s why WEST SYSTEM Six10 is well worth a place in your workshop.
It saves you time
Spend less time preparing and more time working.
WEST SYSTEM Six10 is provided with a specially designed cartridge that separates the resin and hardener for long-term storage. It also comes with a static mixer that accurately distributes a resin-hardener mix at a ratio of 2:1, and ensures that the resin and hardener stay separate until they are outside the cartridge. This means you can spend less time preparing and more time working.
It’s powerful and easy to use
WEST SYSTEM Six10 is shear thinning, so it gets thinner when a shear force – such as a roller or pressure from a caulker gun – is applied to it, and then thickens again once it’s cured. And the benefits of that for you? It means it’s easy to dispense a bead of epoxy exactly where you want it using the static mixer provided. It also means you can easily work with Six10 into a strong fillet that won’t sag once it’s cured.
It gives you time to work but cures fast
[It’s] ideal for long or complicated assemblies.
WEST SYSTEM Six10 is ideal for long or complicated assemblies because it stays workable in the static mixer for 42 minutes and will give you more than an hour of working time when it’s used in a thin film. Then, once you’re happy and it’s in place, it acts fast – with an initial cure that takes between five and six hours.
It’s ideal to wet out substrates
The filler used in both the resin and hardener components of WEST SYSTEM Six10 makes the product ideal to saturate and wet-out light/moderate-weight surfaces like fibreglass and carbon fibre without pre-coating. In fact, using a stiff plastic spreader, you can wet-out any fibreglass fabric lighter than 12oz per square yard.
It’s compatible with WEST SYSTEM products
WEST SYSTEM Six10 is designed to work perfectly with all other WEST SYSTEM products, so you can use it on top of or underneath WEST SYSTEM 105 Epoxy Resin®, cured or uncured.
It combines the strengths of 105 epoxy resin and G/flex
Our chemists developed WEST SYSTEM Six10 to bring together the strength of our 105 epoxy resin and the toughness of G/flex Thickened Epoxy® in a pre-thickened epoxy adhesive. It has modulus slights lower than 105 epoxy resin, making it suitable for adhesive applications where you might use a filled WEST SYSTEM epoxy mix. And it can also be used to create laminates closer to a 105 Epoxy Resin laminate than the more malleable G/flex laminate.
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