Tra-Con Color Keyed, High Temperature Epoxy Adhesive
BAF253 is a low viscosity, high temperature, two-part epoxy formulation that changes color during the curing process to indicate cure status.
Features:
- Packaged in a 2 gram rigid plastic tube separated by a leak-proof clamp (BIPAX) which eliminates mix ratio errors
- Excellent wicking, and develops strong, tough mechanically stable bonds
- Good impact and thermal shock resistance
- Low stress
- Resistant to water and weathering, vapors and gases, most petroleum products, and an extended range of organic and inorganic environments
- Can be used on a wide variety of fiber optic and optical materials that includes most metals, ceramics, glass and many plastics
- Yields excellent pot and polish fiber optic connections
- This package will prepare approximately 25~30 fiber optic connectors
Mixing Instruction:
- Remove the clamp and mix right inside the BIPAX.
Colors:
- Unmixed components: Light yellow
- Mixture: Green/blue
- Fully cured: Reddish-amber
Cure Schedules (choose only one)
- 15 minutes @ 10°C
- 6 minutes @ 12°C
- 1 minutes @ 15°C
Pot Life:
- 25 grams, 1 hour
Properties:
- Specific gravity, mixed: 1.2
- Index of refraction: 1.56
- Viscosity, cps, mixed ((after mixing) @ 2°C): 1750
- Thixotropic index: 1
- Operating temperature range,°C: -60 ~ +175
- Hardness, Shore D: 88
- Mix ratio, pbw, Resin/Hardener: 100:10
- Lap shear, alum to alum: 2700psi
- Glass transition (Tg), ultimate: 11°C
- Water absorption, after 24 hours: 0.004%
- VOC: 19.6 grams/l
- Coefficient of expansion, above Tg: 202 ppm°C
- Coefficient of expansion, below Tg: 62.67 ppm°C
- Reactive solids contents: 100%
- Outgassing, NASA: passed
Material Safety Data Sheet:
- BAF253 Epoxy MSDS Sheet
