Installed Epoxy-Coat - now got a problem

[CV Joint]

I installed Epoxy-Coat yesterday. Everything went well (I plan to summarize my experience in a separate thread) but now I find I have a little problem.

A 1/4" nut is stuck in the epoxy. Where the heck did it come from? This puzzled me for about 10 seconds as the garage was spotlessly clean and prepared before I started. Then it hit me: my homemade spike boots. I used a 1 inch board with about twenty 1.75" screws in each boot as spikes. And I secured the boards to an old pair of boots with nuts and bolts through the soles. Well, seemed like a good idea. I didn't feel it fall off as I was walking around, but I discovered the nut this morning as I scanned the pristine floor.

So, what to do about it?

It's in a main walking traffic area, so leaving it embedded is not a good option. I can try chiseling it out, but I believe I'll damage the epoxy when removing it.

I suppose I could grind it down flush with the floor...

Did anyone else end up with something in the epoxy the did not plan for?

Suggestions?


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[tc2000]

Have you thought of threading a bolt into it for a nice table base?

 

[dkroth]

Leave it. It will be a nice novelty.

Some day it will come loose and you'll have to touch up the sport (or not).

Floor looks great, BTW.

 

[GarageEnvy]

Since nobody else has said it yet.

Epoxying your floor is nuts.

 

[Hammerdown]

Looks to me that it is only stuck in the clear coat. Try to score around it with a razor knife. Go in at an angle so you don't cut the colored epoxy. Depending on how long the clear coat has cured, this shouldn't be difficult. Once the nut is loose, scuff sand the area with an 80-100 grit sand paper to create some "tooth" in the coating and apply a very small amount of the clear coat with a brush to the sanded area. Should blend it well enough. Hope this helps, good luck!

 

[CV Joint]

Looks to me that it is only stuck in the clear coat....

Thanks, but it's just glossy epoxy; there is no clearcoat.

 

[rugerlady]

Contact me at the office and I can help you with this. BTW, this is not even close to the strangest thing found in curing epoxy. Be glad it wasn't a snake or a mouse!!

 

[Hammerdown]

Contact me at the office and I can help you with this. BTW, this is not even close to the strangest thing found in curing epoxy. Be glad it wasn't a snake or a mouse!!

It does seem that critters of all sorts, especially flying bugs, are drawn to a nice, newly applied epoxy coating to die. Maybe one day it will be like Jurassic Park, where they get DNA from an extinct animal found encased in epoxy resin...

 

[letterman52]

Looks real good. Did you use the Beige Flake mix?

 

[volvo]

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Hang a sign on the wall, ...." $20 If you can pick up this nut "......


Looking good in any case.

 

[regguy1]

I hate it when my nuts get caught in epoxy

 

[graffix000]

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Hang a sign on the wall, ...." $20 If you can pick up this nut "......


Looking good in any case.

this would be good if you decide to leave it...

floor looks good!

 

[Motobob]

I like it...I wish I would have thought to drop a nut in my epoxy as well! Leave it!

Bob (VA)

 

[andersen24]

Thanks for the idea - when I do mine, I'll put a silver dollar in the floor and laugh when my friends try to pick it up