Glue for glass to metal?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Spending all their time trying to make cars run on water.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

But they'd need to make it so you would have success too. Which is impossible.

[Martin]

Blindingly obvious :-) I did use the word similar.

If you had googled a bit you would have discovered tht the F28 was at the time the only civilian airliner whose wings had snapped off :-) Pilot flew into a thunderstorm near R'dam pulled -3 to -6G and a wing snapped plane buried itself deep in the ground south of R'dam near the Moerdijk Bridge

[James Wilkinson Sword]

That was a fokking stupid thing to do.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

The greenies have a lot to answer for.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

How hard can it be for a chemical to be pasted onto any surface and get a good hold of it? Superglue is fairly good, it dissolves a layer of a lot of surfaces.

[tabbypurr]

similar but certainly not the same

[Martin]

I definitely wrote similar.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Can you prove that in a court of law?

[tony sayer]

There used to be a place at Duxford called Aero research for that very purpose then Ciba Giegy composites now Hexcel composites and Huntsman special products they've been gluing aero structures for many years.....

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Ciba Geigy made Araldite, which sucked, I don't trust them.

[Martin]

The Mosquito bombers were glued together with Aerolite. After the war Aerolite was used by boat builders. At some point the British maker was taken over by CIBA a Swiss company. Aerolite was delivered as a white powder that you mixed with water. The hardener is formic acid.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

(Imagines billions of ants tied up with cotton forced to produce acid day in day out, suffering from total exhaustion.)

[Vir Campestris]

Not was, it still is. I have some.

IME boatbuilders have largely gone over to epoxy - but not completely.

Andy

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

What would you recommend for a plastic canoe that leaks slowly? It's not the usual fibreglass, it's a touring canoe (or probably kayak, I can never remember the difference).

[Vir Campestris]

Depends entirely on the plastic. I'm not an expert in canoes, but I'd guess the most likely thing would be polypropylene - in which case the only fix is to weld it. Melt an old plastic bucket or something into the leaks.

Or you could just use duct tape :)

Canoes are open, and you kneel; Kayaks are enclosed, and you sit. Except sometimes you sit in a canoe, and it's enclosed...

Andy

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

This is open and I sit. But not open like a rowing boat. It's 6 inches thick containing air, and I sit on top. I think it's sold as a "sit on kayak".

[Martin]

If it's cracks that allow the canoe to leak, the cracks can be sealed by allowing Araldite to run into the cracks by using a hair drier.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

I don't think I'll be able to repair it, I cannot find where the water's getting in. If I use it for an hour, it half fills with water inside. But if I fill it with water and try to find where it's leaking back out, I can't see anything. I guess it's many many hairline cracks. I'll just have to put up with stopping every time it gets low in the water.

[whisky-dave]

I found this site regarding sticking things, haven;t verified it;s any good though.