My "better half?" bought one of these cheap (~=A320) small cold frames. For planting out a pot of mixed lettuce from the supermarket it's OK.
It consists of panels of double skinned plastic extrusion glued into a slot in an aluminium extrusion frame - and on one of the lid elements this glue has failed. Can someone please make suggestions as what glue would be suitable for this.
Thanks Rob
That depends upon the type of plastic, as the bond between that and the adhesive is likely to be the weak point and different plastics have different bond strengths to different adhesives. You might find an aggressive double-sided adhesive tape, such as carpet fixing tape, better than a glue.
Colin Bignell
The most likely stuff to work is Evostick Serious glue or similar. But of course some plastics refuse to glue well.
try hot glue.
Or something in the mastic line.
That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it haste have a long load triangle fitted. I got one in polycarbonate - the same material used for cold frame glazing but it was floppy and folded up when towed at 60. I got some aluminium track and bonded it to the plastic using "Mammoth" tape. Like carpet tape but much stronger.
Clean the surfaces carefully (I used meths) apply the tape to one surface, peel off the protection strip press into place. You only get one chance, the bond is as strong as epoxy.
It's sold by Toolstation as "power grip tape" it is available in 25mm and
50mm widths in rolls of 2.5 metres for £2.50/£4.50 respectively.Product numbers: 63962, 66322
Take more water with it.
Shouldn't this say 'sent from my I-phone while driving' ?
You should ask for a refund on your speech recognition software!
no. merely incomprehensible firth froth.
I don't see these much since I KF'ed the stupid arrogant sod.
I thought I was in the Stanley Unwin thread.
It's the bloody iPhone, it corrects my typing behind my back.
almost correct. Sent from my iPhone while in the most boring meeting I've been in for months.
It's finger recognition software.
----- That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my digger across Europe. Because the bucket sticks out behind the trailer it has to have a long load triangle fitted. I got one in polycarbonate - the same material used for cold frame glazing but it was floppy and folded up when towed at 60. I got some aluminium track and bonded it to the plastic using "Mammoth" tape. Like carpet tape but much stronger.
Clean the surfaces carefully (I used meths[1]) apply the tape to one surface, peel off the protection strip press into place. You only get one chance, the bond is as strong as epoxy.
It's sold by Toolstation as "power grip tape" it is available in 25mm and 50mm widths in rolls of 2.5 metres for £2.50/£4.50 respectively.
Product numbers: 63962, 66322
[1] Not for internal purposes, no matter what the previous message looked like.
Aww bless, perhaps if you didn't type such s*it all the time there wouldn't be any need to correct the bollocks you write.
Can't you disable it?
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