TotalBoat Thixo Flex Flexible Epoxy Adhesive

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.

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.

I bought this product after seeing much success from the brand from various YouTube sources. I still have confidence in the brand but had issues with this product. While I am sure the product would have done exactly what I needed it to, I couldn't use it. The plastic mixing nozzle that comes with this product and screws on is, in my opinion, a terrible design. Unfortunately, it is necessary to mix the two components together. No matter how many times I tried and as slow as tried I couldn't get the nozzle to screw down more than two to three threads before getting cross threaded. I was hoping that two or three was enough, it was not. The nozzle blew out after about two squeezes and rendered the tube useless. I tried 5 other nozzles (from the other 2 tubes i bought) with the same cross-thread issue. Unfortunately, I missed the window to return (totally my fault) the 2 unopened tubes, so I am stuck with $80 worth of, what I imagine is great product, that I can't use.

Great epoxy but hard to get out of tube. The nozzles work good but if you don’t have a 1:26 ratio caulk gun, you’re gonna have trouble getting it out of the tube. Good viscosity for filling depressions but not too thick. It’s certainly gap filling. I felt the price was rather high considering you don’t get a full tube but only a little less than half for the price. The convenience is a big factor so I didn’t take more than one star from the rating.

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!

I used this to bond my RV engine cowl to the metal frame. I didn’t buy the heavy duty gun, so I just used it without the mixing tip and mixed with a stirring stick and applied. It took about 3 hrs to become solid, but it is strong! Great stuff. It didn’t seem very flexible, but I didn’t have anything to compare it to. I’ll Update my review after my 2,500 mile road trip.

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.