Technical jb weld cure time

I used some jb weld to fill in some cracks in my steering wheel about 24 hours ago. The thinner spots feel pretty dry but the thicker stuff is still kind of sticky. I this going to take a couple days to fully cure?

 

Usually its rock hard in 24 hrs, if it's mixed with even ratio. It it cold where your at?

 

40s-60s right now but i'm doing this indoors.

 

Did you clean the wheel good before applying the JB Weld? Steering wheels absorb a lot of oils over the years. I'm thinking it could compromise the stuff and make it not cure properly.

 

I tried that trick on a '63 BelAir wheel. It cracked again pretty soon after it was painted. I'd try something besides JB next time.

 

I wiped it down before I started. It doesn't smudge or anything just feels a little tacky in some spots. I didn't want to go ham on it with a sander and make a mess of everything.

 

i did one in the '70s and used epoxy (?) and epoxy paint. worked like a charm!

 

PC 7 is what lots of folks use to fix steering wheels. Its more flexible.

 

I'd say if its been sitting 24 hours and hasn't set up, it was probably not mixed properly, or mixed fully, at least that was when I had problems with it.
I did mix some once when the temp of the material I put the JB weld on was cold and damp ( the material was near 32 degrees), it didn't set up worth a ****.
If it hasn't set up by tomorrow morning, I'd chip it off, warm up the material and try again.

 

Second on the PC-7. I used it to fix a 36 wheel.

 

Marine tex works well.
Al.

 

PC-7 works great!

 

4th on the PC-7
Worked out great for reducing an 18" OD steering wheel to 16"

 

I did the cracks in my steering wheel with Bondic. It is a clear plastic material that is applied with a small eyedropper. The nice thing about it is that you don't have to worry about mixing the right ratios of filler and catalyst. It sets up when you shine a small LED light on it that is supplied with it. Seems to work well.

 

Is it hard yet?

 

Not sure how I should answer that

 

Nobody cares about your ****.
Answer the question

 

We use PC 7 at work for steering wheels. Works great, and forms better than JB. Not as runny.

 

You owe me a sprite

 

hm... yeah 24 hours nothing should still be tacky. Is this the regular old 2 part jbweld? I use that stuff all the time. I bet either you didn't get a close enough 50:50 mixture, or maybe was it extremely old? I've used stuff that is 5 years old or more (opened first 5 years ago) and it's been fine for me, but maybe it does have a shelf life.

you could try putting a hot light up close to it, see if that helps it go?

 

interesting, that's my one complaint about JB, sometimes it's a bit too runny. I'd like to give PC 7 a go. You use the "original" flavor?

 

PC-7, PC-11, or Marine-Tex.

 

In the .mil we used a lot of different stuff, the sheet metal guys used to use a Hysol product on rotor blades that everybody universally just called "the pink ****", about the same color as Bazooka bubble gum. That was some stout stuff. I bet it would work great for steering wheels.

 

Get a little heat into it, 120 or whatever you think car interiors in the summer get up to.

See if it kicks off, decide if you have to s****e it out.

 

i cut up a mopar intake to make a single plane intake for my buick 350. it's held together with jb weld. even at 10k rpm it did not break. btw neither did the engine. lol

 

AFA I know , most epoxy does NOT chemically bond to most plastics permanently .

 

How does the PC 11 sand compared to the PC 7 ?

 

It's a little harder, but manageable. I would not fill a dent with it, but it is fine for steering wheel cracks,

 

Thanks. I’ll have to order some and try it on a pretty rough banjo wheel I have layin around.