UV Glue any good?

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Has anyone tried that UV cure glue?

What's it like, any good?..

[Lee]

It's not "glue" as such it's a liquid plastic resin that sets under UV light..

I have used it to reattach the lens caps on the LED backlight on a TV and to fix a broken nose piece on a pair of magnifieying glasses. Excellent for both of those uses, but how good it is for more mundane uses? I haven't tried :)

[Chris Hogg]

Isn't that what dentists use for setting fillings and attaching crowns to teeth? If it's OK for that, then it should be pretty good for other uses, I would think.

[Andy Burns]

Yes, and re-attaching rear view mirrors to windscreens. Though whether all these types of UV cured glue are the same, I don't know.

[Steve Walker]

And, many years ago, re-attaching the catches to quarterlights.

SteveW

[polygonum_on_google]

Dentists, according to my dentist, now uses a blue light cure - not UV.

I think the UV ones have been phased out, largely due to the impact of UV on the dental staff.

[jrwalliker]

They were using blue light 30 years ago. In those days it was produced by filtering the light from a quartz halogen projector lamp before sending it down an optical fibre light pipe.

Nowadays I imagine blue LEDs would be the preferred light source.

John

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

Yes it has also been used successfully in space, outside apparently, so maybe it does not require air either. Brian

[polygonum_on_google]

LEDs are, most certainly, the choice. Gets the exact wavelength required and can easily be run from a battery.