Today, I had to glue up a bunch of parts. I don’t like pumping, mixing, thickening, and mixing some more. I prefer to mix one big gob of goo. The problem is, of course, that a big gob of epoxy “exotherms”, and goes off before you can use it. I snagged a tip from a Russell Brown video. He employs an epoxy pallet. It is simply a scrap piece of plywood onto which he smears the goo. The stuff gets to spread out, and not get hot.
His videos are on Offcenterharbor.com, which is a website I pay a subscription to. Brown has a series on working with epoxy that is excellent. There are many other videos that I watch again and again. It’s expensive, but worth it to me.