At 06:44 PM 3/26/2009, Max Wellhouse wrote: >Devcon Plastic Welder(PERMATEX has similar). Check "active" >ingredients for Methyl Methacrolate. Wonderfull stuff! It's "methacrYlate" btw. This is a two-part very-fast-setting acrylic with amazing "bite" into most plastics. I try to always keep some around. Seems almost miraculous sometimes, although I think even it will be defeated on polyethylene and those wonderful waxy-slick-feeling industrial resins used for intricate parts like turn-signal actuators and such. Not sure about nylon. Another uniquely useful adhesive is Elmer's StixAll (sp?), a tiny little tube of RTV silicone for about $6. Releases acetic acid during cure, so that limits it a bit. But unlike gasket maker silicones, this stuff is formulated to be stickeeeee, and will stick to an amazing number of materials. Cures bluish-clear translucent, rubbery. Overnight cure. Since I'm talking about superlatives here -- 3M 5200 caulk/bedding compound. I believe it's a polysulfide rubber. Takes two weeks to cure, but it's so tenacious that they make another version whose only attribute is that it isn't as strong as 5200. 5125, maybe? Like everything else from 3M, it ain't cheap.
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