Sika Anchorfix-1, High strength adhesive, fast setting anchoring for threaded and reinforcing bars in uncracked concrete, 10.1 fl. oz Cartridge

Holds down my paver steps. The contractors glue would not work

The adhesive was easy to use and worked great.

My father was a professional carpenter, mechanic. Essentially, I grew up knowing how to do things right - but as an IT guy I've moved through my life doing projects half-baked. Eye-balling instead of measuring, trying to get by with the wrong tools, hiring mechanics and tradesmen instead of doing things myself etc.This time, I'm hanging a vintage hanging egg chair and wanted to do it right as my family would be sitting / swinging in it. I bought the proper expansion bolts, went to the hardware store and got the exact size concrete hammer-drill bit I needed. Tonight, I got up on the ladder and drilled my holes.I tested the expansion bolts and they were just loose enough to get in the holes. I could see I could hammer them in a little then start tightening the bolt - perfect. I got the blower and got rid of the dust in the holes like you're supposed to etc..Got off the ladder, cut the tube of this Sika Corp Anchor Fix, screwed in one of the two provided mixing tips and started pushing the trigger on the gun, it was mixed by the time I was up the ladder - it flowed pretty easily.. Stuck the nozzle all the way up each hole and dispensed the 'amazing' Anchor Fix epoxy. I also put some on the bottom of the swing plate... Climbed down the ladder, got the two bolts, ascended ladder and guess what????The bolts no longer fit! In the 45 seconds it took me to descend the ladder and get the bolts and climb back up the Silka was ROCK HARD... it was also ROCK HARD on the tube as well. Unless aliens abducted me and I lost time I should have at least had 10 min (according to their instructions even longer) before it set.This crap literally set in under 45 seconds, probably more like 30 seconds I was having problem pushing the trigger towards the end. There is no way you could use this and get a screw in the concrete before it's set hard. Not only did it set - but it doesn't even stick.. It flaked off the metal plate about as easy as plaster or paris would.. I just used my thumbnail and it came right off - hard as a rock but with no epoxy power at all.This stuff is COMPLETELY and utterly useless, now I have two holes in my cement roof I'd rather not have and a tube of Silka that's already in the trash.Why anyone gave this a good rating is beyond me. It sucks!

Works great 👍 👌

Quality

I had to anchor some rebar into a concrete wall to attach a post. Bored a 1/2" hole for a 3/8" rebar and cleaned everything ready to use the adhesive, which I had no experience before using it. I watched details on how to fill the hole twist the rebar to get good adhesion. Trouble is that as I was using the caulking gun it got increasingly harder to dispense. I got it done, but barely. This adhesive once it starts to cure it sets within seconds! Once it generates heat from the mixing there is no moving it around, and it hardens in the nozzle. Nice to have second nozzle, but you need to do some planning to make use of the hole tube in a timely way.

Worked great for securing an address plate in a stone wall.

this product was very difficult to use. it was so tough to get out of the tube I needed to use a clamp to actuate the trigger of the caulking gun and the whole thing bent and deformed my caulking gun.. At one point i took the tip off to try re-trimming the bag to no avail. It was a inexpensive Home Depot caulking gun so whatever on wrecking that but i was under the gun to use the cement before it cured. I used it at 75*F and took maybe 5-10 minutes to get through the whole tube.