Glue gun or epoxy glue for temporary basin repair?

[Michael Chare]

As a temporary measure I wish to glue a broken basin back to-gether. Should I use an epoxy glue or buy a glue gun?

[Brian Gaff]

Well if its heat glue would it not soften when hot water was in the basin? Brian

[williamwright]

Epoxy. Hot glue would be hopeless.

Bill

[The Natural Philosopher]

Epoxy - 'Milliput' is excellent fir this - and possibly a hair drier or heat gun...

[Cursitor Doom]

Agreed. But *proper* epoxy; not that crap that Araldite has become. You can get some of the right stuff from Poland off Ebay and it's coloured with a dense white pigment that's ideal for this purpose. You can even use it for filling chipped porcelain in basins and baths and it works really well.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Michael Chare expressed precisely :

Epoxy, the 24 hour setting stuff. It will give you time to position it and the 24 hour stuff produces a stronger bond.

Hot glue will cool and set up, before you have time to position broken the parts correctly.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Cursitor Doom wrote on 18/10/2020 :

Would that work on a chipped pressed steel white enamelled bath?

[The Natural Philosopher]

yes.

[Jimk]

Go on! blow *seven quid* & report back!

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

It happens that Jimk formulated :

A pointless exercise, expending time and money on something which might prove not be suitable. However, has it has now been confirmed to be suitable for the job (thanks TNP), I have ordered a pack.

[Jimk]

Fingers crossed then...

speculate to accumulate...

[Roger Mills]

What sort of basin?

[Vir Campestris]

It might also go all soft if you fill the basin with hot water :O

Andy

[Michael Chare]

Thank you for all the replies. It will just be a temporary fix until I can completely refurbish the bathroom. The biggest problem will be replacing the iron soil pipe outside which passes up throught the soffit and the roof.

[John Rumm]

Its quite hard using hot glue on large bits of metal I find - they conduct the heat away too quickly, and also are not easy surfaces to bond to.

[John Rumm]

[repost - first appeared to get lost, however apologies for duplicates if you see them!]

Set in 20 seconds, and form a strong bond that can be separated relatively easily if required[1].

So when gluing paper / card etc or fabric to timber, you can glue and move on very quickly.

Also massively useful in a workshop I find, for things like fixing drawer fronts - a dab of hot melt at each end - push it into the right place and hold for a few secs, you can now remove/open the draw and drill / screw though without risk of the position slipping. Or just fixing a template to something before marking or routing round it. Same when fixing hinges on boxes - a dab of glue to allow you to position, but then open the hinge while it stays in place so you can mark / screw etc.

(hot paint scraper slid between parts, or freezer spay and a sharp tap)

[newshound]

+1

[tabbypurr]

If you could get the basin off & into a large oven, an epoxy repair might even be somewhat permanent, long as it gets heated & cooled slowly.

NT