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..... I thought j b weld is not food safe? From the look of your broken piece, almost no contact will be occurring between the repaired chipped off piece and hot tea. Even if it was in contact, the epoxy should be inside the crack and very tight with almost no exposure. In my opinion the exposure i...

Yes, looks like that expoxy can take 145c, much hotter than any tea will need. Your pot is really nice and worth repairing, I love that compact shape with Yù lì 玉笠 (rain hat). I have a similar one by Liu Xiu Di in zini clay. If you have all the pieces that broke off -I’ve successfully used J-B Weld...

.m. wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 21, 2019 4:43 pm

It looks good. An important thing is that the epoxy gets cured well. Seems that in general with epoxy higher curing temperature (up to about 150C) tends to produce better result than room temperature curing.

So do i have to do this for 24 hours ? or just an hour?

Also it is important to mix the 2 parts well: with the smallest 2.5g pouch i'd be worried of not getting all the glue out of the pouch and not getting the right ratio between the two parts. Talking about kintsugi, they make a silver and a gold epoxy :lol: https://www.atomadhesives.com/AA-BOND-FS298...

ive found this food grade epoxy, and i think it can take up to 145 degrees, but please can someone double check, it says operating temp from -70 cel to 145 cel. is operating temp the temp it can take when applied? https://www.atomadhesives.com/FDA-Grade-Food-Medical-Epoxy-Adhesives/AA-BOND-FDA2-FDA-...

I dropped my F1 hongni from EOT.
Should I pay someone to do kintsugi on it? Or should I do it myself? Or what should I do?

steanze wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 29, 2018 1:09 am

Well it depends on perspective... but in that period they did use nenni ore with iron oxide added.

thanks i'll look into that further "nenni ore with iron oxide" thank you.

pedant wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 28, 2018 4:52 pm

Pretty sure that your hongni doesn't have iron added. Correct me if I'm wrong ofc

Yea actually maybe it was the black tea reacting with the clay.
The metallic smell and taste has gone after using it with DHP.
Thanks

Only one of my hongni pots mute Taiwan oolong; a somewhat thick bodied Neiziwahong clay houhin (zini purple clay inside, with a coat of hongni red clay outside), made for export to Japan. It softens the hard edges of medium/low grade oolong (in a good way). Did you get your pot from Essence of Tea?...

but essence of teas said it was from 1987 to 1992, is that modern or old?

this hongni seems to give the tea a metalic taste. is this what other people get?

ok the harshness is gone. Maybe it was me. so far the pot mutes all the teas, i think strip oolongs is the best was to go, i think the pot may be a bit restrictive for ball roled oolongs. so far the DHP & dong ding was muted the least. i think DHP and Wuyi rock yanchas are the way to go. the black t...

I have never encountered a hongni that increases harshness in the back of the throat... Did you use the same leaf/water ratio and steep time and you get more harshness in the throat with the hongni pot than with a gaiwan? If that is the case I would not use the pot, it might be a bad/weird pot. I h...