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Originally Posted by Walkabout
I quite agree Magnon.
Cotton wool, wood shavings, tampons (are cotton wool aren't they?), rubber gloves are all providing the "filler" material to provide a base for the magic of Araldite.
Similar things go on with many other forms of composite materials technology -
GRP - glass reinforced plastic
RC - reinforced concrete
But, in these other cases the matrix of filler is providing structural strength to the composite.
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So you and magnon would use araldite without a 'filler' over large distances if you could? OK try pulling apart the following
A length of cotton wool
A length of araldite (make it up on some plastic, then seperate it from the plastic)
A length of cotton wool with araldite
See what you think after trying it.  Think you'll find it does the same as glass fiber in the fiberglass, rebar in reinforced concrete etc etc.
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