"SonomaProducts.com" wrote
I can just see it now.
A bunch of little old ladies and their caulking guns...
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Epoxy Question
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Superglue, 4 tubes for a buck at the dollar store. Pick up a bottle of nail polish remover while you're there, someone WILL end up gluing their fingers to their craftspiece.
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Rubbing alcohol removes uncured epoxy. Be SURE to put the cap back on the syringe same way it came off, any hardener left in the cap is enough to set the resin.
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Epoxy is overkill and over-messy.
If it's always flat-on-flat, use contact cement (like for laminate). Otherwise, consider the liquid-nails/craft/projects glues in tubes next to the caulk at your local hardware outlet. Craft-store glues are sold in tiny quantities, and are fine for a decoupage project, but are usually child-safe items... which is a limitation we adults sometimes want to ignore.
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On 3/11/2011 6:14 PM, Father Haskell wrote: ...
They're keyed/shaped so only can go on in one orientation...
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This to that:
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Online glue advice. Or maybe a book:
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Or a Festering book:
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how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch
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They probably don't need "a" good glue. Do the crafts live indoors or out? What temp ranges? Humidity ranges?
-- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch
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No wonder you're so odd, Toy. You were raised on homegrown Canuckistani bananas and fresh squoze rhino milk...
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Father Haskell wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@p3g2000vbv.googlegroups.com:
Make sure it's acetone based nail polish remover. Apparently there's some stuff that doesn't contain the acetone out there...
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LB:
You've had a roster of suggestions. I'll give you an item to avoid: epoxy in 2-part dispensing syringes as sold at retail outlets. If you use it all at once, fine. But those stored syringes are famous for leaking in hot weather after their first use. Maybe infamous is a more apt word here as is the phrase "leaking all over".
Also, the kind of glue line you are looking for would be one criterion in evaluating your choices.
Regards,
Edward Hennessey
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"Larry Jaques" wrote
They just need a step up from the craft store glue. This stuff will just sit on a shelf when done.
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Lee, do you have a picture anywhere of the kind of work they are doing? If so, it might be helpful in figuring out what sort of adhesive might be appropriate.
If they're using white glue you might want to take a look at E6000.
If they're using hot glue you might want to take a look at HiPurformer MP300 (note that MP300 is the only glue in the HiPurformer line that is supposed to work on copper).
Either should, from your description, make a bond that is more than adequate for the application, and both are very easy to use (do read _all_ the instructions though).
Don't see any reason to use an epoxy in the application you describe unless there's more to it than you mentioned.
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Silicone caulk or any of the polyurethanes would do an excellent job. GE makes a small size tube of silicone with a resealable top that would work out well. The biggest problem will be not getting it on the finish side of pieces.
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Here's the ticket:
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cleanup, transluscent glue-line, cheap. Sticks most things to most things... one side needs to be porous (wood?)
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Then teach them to mix resorcinol-formaldehyde resin glue... excellent for aircraft...and with all them bats around....wait.. I didn't really say that...
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It is very simple stuff. Just a piece or two of copper to accent some wood., Other items are glued on there as well. I need to keep it simple. Some craft ladies getting together and having gun. It has to go with coffee and cake. Ya know, a social event.
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NOW I see. If they have a gun you had best do what they want.
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"Robatoy" wrote
It is cheap and universally available. I will get some for my wife and everybody else can get there own. My life just got simpler.
You are pretty smart for a guy raised on rhino milk. (Did the rhino play in the canals?)
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LOL Damn spellchecker!
The intended word there was FUN. Guns are not usually associated with coffee and cake.
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E6000 sounds like the way to go. You can get it at Jo-ann fabrics, Michaels, Dick Blick, and Woodcraft that I know of offhand. 6 bucks or so a tube. Put it on both surfaces, let it flash off for a couple of minutes, press together, it holds. It's a contact cement so the flashoff is important.
Steve Knight has recommended it for attaching the soles on his wooden planes.
Most places that have E6000 also have "Amazing Goop" from the same manufacturer--it's less viscous and flashes off faster but otherwise pretty much the same.