J-B Weld SteelStik Epoxy Putty 2 oz Gray

I bought this to fix a vacuum cleaner button, but then I got a taste for power. I've since used it to fix a loose table leg, a concrete step, and I'm fairly certain if I used enough of it, I could fuse two tectonic plates together. It's so easy to use...just knead it until it's uniform in color, and suddenly, you have the strength of a thousand blacksmiths in your hands. It cures so hard that I'm pretty sure when apocalypse comes (and that might be soon...oof), the only thing left standing will be the items I've repaired with it. 10/10, would accidentally bond my soul to my toolbox again.

I love this stuff, though I could stand for it to dry just a tiny bit slower. I want to mix the putty well to make sure it holds well, but if I do that to my satisfaction, I have to rush through using it, or it gets too hard to mold into shape. It works on items that you need to look right, again, but I wouldn't use it on something that's going to undergo a lot of stress after the fix. It breaks more easily than the regular JB Weld liquid epoxy does, but it's great for the things I've used it for, like repairing part of a brass decorative item that had snapped off. It sands smoothly, and paint adheres to it. I used some gold foil to cover the area I repaired in a nod to the Kintsugi process for broken pottery and it works well with that. While it dries enough to make molding difficult in just a few minutes, and can hold items that don't weigh too much right away, it does take some time to completely cure, 24 hours, at least. It holds well as long as the repair is not in a place that has to hold a great deal of weight or undergo a lot of stress. I haven't tried it in those situations, but I get the feeling that my suspicion on how well it would do is correct just from handling the material. I've actually had to repair the same item more than once in the same place, it's just an unwieldy protrusion that I'm going to have to be careful where I put it in the future, but that leads me to believe that it won't hold up under a lot of pressure. So, choose your battles, use it where it will do well and not where it won't