| Any ideas for a suitable glue please. |=20 | My wife want to mount some sea shells and sand dollars from a recent = holiday=20 | into a box type picture frame. The shells are very delicate. | I was thinking of something like the stuff used to stick CDs onto = magazine=20 | covers but I don't know what it is. Also wondered about silicone = sealant.
The stuff they stick CDs onto a magazine is hot glue from a glue gun
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which are commonly available, ours came from Aldi. You put a glue stick in the back, it gets heated up and you squeeze hot glue out of the nozzle with a trigger. The glue is fairly stiff and thickens rapidly.
They work well if you are fast, because the glue stops being glue when it cools in maybe 1/2 minute. Keep your fingers out of the way you may get a mild burn.
Hot glue should be OK for sea shells, which are fairly strong. and being calcium carbonate should stand the heat.
Never seen a sand dollar, but Google gave me this.
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seem to be fragile so pushing them onto hot glue may well break them.
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