# Long preamble with a General Question at the end, please help!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 27, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-preamble-with-a-general-question-at-the-end-please-help/600950 "2011-10-27T07:20:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-preamble-with-a-general-question-at-the-end-please-help/600950/1 "2011-10-27T07:20:57Z")

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Really this belongs in GQ, but I can’t do that because I’m going to insist on this long preamble.

i found myself sitting just now, pounding my fist on the bed, saying,  
“Now, _that’s_ a monster! No tentacles or fangs – a \*real \* monster!”

And I looked up and asked myself, how did I get here? And I thought for a minute, and said to myself, could this whole tirade _possibly_ have started with me bitching about the 9-year epoxy? Because that’s the last thing I remember before I got started.

So of course I had to figure it out, because that’s how I roll.

I tried forwards from the epoxy-bitching, but that didn’t work. So I began the laborious process of tracing my thoughts backwards.

“Let’s see … monster … Pohl Pot … (what would LeeLoo think?) …\* ‘Geek! Nerd! Glasses-wearer!’ \* (machine gun sounds) … fear of intellectuals and smart folks … the Powers That Be are terrified of smart folks … they must watch the Hell out of the SDMB … the SDMB will know, they know _everything_ … aw, crap!”

Yep, it _was_ about the 9-year epoxy.

Actually it’s 9-hour epoxy that I bought by accident. To buy it on purpose would indicate a level of masochism that I’m just not capable of. And I couldn’t find my superglue.

I have a dental plate of which a cosmetically pivotal part has broken, and I was forced to repair it with the 9-year epoxy. But that’s torture.

And now, my General Question:

**Will the application of gentle external heat, like say from a hairdryer, make it cure any faster?**

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-preamble-with-a-general-question-at-the-end-please-help/600950/2 "2011-10-27T07:51:09Z")

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Okay.

So you’re asking if heat will make epoxy glue harden faster? According to this [site](http://www.westsystem.com/ss/epoxy-chemistry/), probably.

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-preamble-with-a-general-question-at-the-end-please-help/600950/3 "2011-10-27T08:23:33Z")

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**Little Nemo:** Wow, good answer! That’s an excellent cite/site that definitively answered my question. Thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-preamble-with-a-general-question-at-the-end-please-help/600950/4 "2011-10-27T13:23:52Z")

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If there was some purpose to the preamble, I missed it.