TotalBoat Thixo Flex Flexible Epoxy Adhesive

23ft wooden boat with failing epoxy caulking in every seam. Planks were 1.5 inch wide and generally tight and narrow. Cotton caulking was not an option given narrow seams. Standard epoxies would tend to flow out of the seam and down the hull. Thixo Flex Adhesive fit the bill perfectly. Using a battery powered calking gun it was relatively easy to fill each seam and compress the material into the seam with a putty knife. Excess epoxy was simply scraped off and forced into seams not yet filled. It is expensive but the time saved and the quality of the completed job made it worthwhile. Looking at the finished product, the quality of the filled seams; I really don't expect to have to treat these seams again for a decade at the minimum. Thixo Flex flexible epoxy adhesive is seriously good stuff when working with hull planking under a few inches in width.

This product worked great to fix my "Catilina Smile." After grinding out the crack and scraping out the old epoxy that has failed I injected this into the crack. We'll see in the fall if it holds up but this was easy to use and set up well.

This stuff is great and comes out already cureing. A bit pricey but it is great stuff. Have recently used 2 tubes and it’s quite difficult to get pressed out with my calk guns. May be from resistance going through the mixing tip. I looked for a larger tube or tubes, but couldn’t find them anywhere, but I think they do exacts.

The guys on Snake Mountain Boat Works really like this stuff which made it an easy purchase for me as a first time boat restorer. Having spent so much time removing all the paint and then wanting confidence that my hull will be sealed, this Thixo Flex product has me feeling good as I move on to prime and paint.The self mixing tip is fantastic, however the thickness of this product makes your typical $4 caulk gun ineffective. I started with one and my hand and forearm were straining from the first squeeze. I ran down and bought a 13:1 heavy duty caulk gun for about $17 and now the Thixo Flex just pays out smoothly. It's still not lightening fast, but that actually is good because this stuff is sticky and thick and you want to get the correct amount on the boat so that when you follow along with your corner spreader you don't have a lot of excess.Love this product, but definitely get a quality gun or you will struggle.

I bough this product for my husband and he had the following to say. Absolute trash. Comes with 2 mixing nozzles, both would not set. He bought 2 tubes, non of the nozzles set. Used a nozzle from the equivalent west marine product and they worked. The product does dispense with any ease when compared to the west marine product. DO NOT BUY. Get the west marine product it is 100x better and easier to use. He is using it to do repairs on a fiberglass on wood dory boat glueing the caprail to the hull before fiberglass. How this has such high a rating is suspect. They did refund both tubes which was nice.

Needed to fix a gouge in my Yamaha FXs side hull, the gouge was only 2 inches big but I sanded down the whole area, just enough to get the THIXO speed evenly. It's hard as a rock and worked awesome. Veryyyyyy happy with product💪💪💪💯💯💯

Used for sealing rivets and seams on bottom of 19 foot aluminum boat. Hardest part as usual was prep, wire brushing and lacquer thinner wiping of areas to be sealed. Bought a high thrust (28:1) chaulking gun from Home Depot that made apllication easy. Haven't tested yet but applied areas are semi-flexible and adhesion seems super!

New construction wooden sailboat. Bought Thixo to close and seal multiple seams in hull panels. Product characteristics are good. Very thick, does not sag. Very strong. Sands well. However, it is expensive, even more so given the multiple failures of the dispensing system. Thixo is very thick and it requires enormous strength to push the product through the dispensing tube that is screwed on to the end of the cartridge. Conventional caulking gun absolutely will not work. I used an 8:1 gun and still struggled. Two of the four cartridges failed when the dispensing tube threads failed to hold forcing me to empty the cartridge on a board, mix the product by hand and apply it with a small scraper. Defeats the whole idea of controlled small bead application using a caulking gun. The product was room temp warm (75 degrees) applied in a warm environment. Product directions claim 80ft, 1/8” bead. I got less than half. So the effective cost feels like double the price with a lot of effort and frustration.