Hi it's Emma at The Bead Shop in Nottingham and today I'm going to be
showing you how to mix up the Devcon 5 minute epoxy glue and how to use it
to stick these acrylic roses on to metal findings such as these stud earrings.
It's a very strong epoxy glue which is especially good for sticking anything
like plastic or metal to metal findings, it provides a really strong bond which
is much stronger than any super glue or hot glues can provide. So with any epoxy
glue it always comes in two parts and with Devcon 5 minute epoxy, it's
really obvious- there's one tube which has a black lid and one tube which has a
white lid. The white lid is a hardener and the black lid is the resin and all we
need to do is mix an equal pea-sized amount from both tubes together and
apply it to the surfaces and as the name suggests, the bond does go off and sets hard
in five minutes, although we do recommend that you leave it slightly longer to
create a firm bond. They do recommend that the full set time is between eight
and ten minutes and the full cure time is about an hour. Just using a piece of
scrap paper to mix my resin on and I'm working on a wipeable surface because
the resin does get quite sticky, so you don't want to get it on your table as
when it does set as the name suggests, it just set very, very hard. We're going
to go ahead and I'm going to take a tube - doesn't matter which tube you start with
to be honest so I've got white tube which was the hardener and I'm just
going to squeeze out a blob onto my paper and it's very important that you
always put the right lid back on the right tube because when the two halves
meet that creates a chemical reaction and if you don't put the correct lid on
it would set hard. So now I'm going to put an equal size blob of my resin which
is the one with a black lid so just put the two next one another and then I'm
going to use a cocktail stick or you can use a match stick just to mix these two
parts together. As you start mixing it doesn't
come across greatly on on-camera but they do kind of begin to look a little
bit cloudy that's absolutely normal that's the chemical reaction beginning
you do need to work quite quickly with this as I say this it starts kind of
setting after five minutes so you want to have everything ready before you
start mixing. So I'm thoroughly mixing the two together, scraping it up mixing
it together. Once you're happy it's thoroughly mixed together and I'm going
to turn these little acrylic roses over and I'm going to apply a small
amount of the glue onto the earring finding
and pop that on. And the same with the other one,
just pop that into the centre. You don't need to worry too much if there is any
excess glue around the edges because the Devcon does actually dry completely
clear and so there won't be any yellow marks showing the glue even when it sets
does stay completely clear and doesn't yellow. You just need to make sure that
the earring findings stay in the middle of your roses until they're set you can
always use a bit of sort of sticky tape or tack to hold them down if you're
going to be with them you can just keep an eye on them. So I've left my earrings
now for 10 minutes and the glue has set and I just left them on a little bed of
sticky tack which is great for uneven surfaces of this and just keeping them
nice and flat as you can see it's now completely stuck to the back and it's
not yellow at all even though you can see a very very faint line of glue
around the edge it is completely clear and it will stay like that and now they
are ready to wear!