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Suitable adhesive?
Can someone suggest a suitable flexible adhesive, other than a silicone
type, for glueing stainless-steel mesh to plastic? Something thick, with properties like silicone sealant/adhesive, would be perfect. Cheers. |
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Sloper wrote: Can someone suggest a suitable flexible adhesive, other than a silicone type, for glueing stainless-steel mesh to plastic? Something thick, with properties like silicone sealant/adhesive, would be perfect. Cheers. Hot melt glue and gun? Very useful for those sort of things. It's not very flexible, though. But then I'd have thought mesh wasn't either. -- *The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in school was my blood alcohol content* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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What sort of plastic? Nothing much will stick to polyethylene for example.
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Sloper wrote:
Can someone suggest a suitable flexible adhesive, other than a silicone type, for glueing stainless-steel mesh to plastic? Something thick, with properties like silicone sealant/adhesive, would be perfect. Cheers. What plastic? Makes a lot of difference Epoxy sticks to many, but not all, plastics. Olefins being the hardest to get anything to adhere to. |
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Newshound wrote:
What sort of plastic? Nothing much will stick to polyethylene for example. Indeed. You need a solvent glue that will attack its surface and then another glue to attach the attacked surface that is now not actual polythene, to the next layer... |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Sloper wrote: Can someone suggest a suitable flexible adhesive, other than a silicone type, for glueing stainless-steel mesh to plastic? Something thick, with properties like silicone sealant/adhesive, would be perfect. Cheers. What plastic? Makes a lot of difference Epoxy sticks to many, but not all, plastics. Olefins being the hardest to get anything to adhere to. I'm afraid I don't know what sort of plastic it is. I'm pretty sure its not a polythene type though as its quite hard, and one side is very high gloss. There was some sort of black rubbery stuff, possibly silicone, stuck to it before, if that helps. I think I'll try the hot-melt glue or epoxy (maybe a bit of both) as I have access to those already. I've never used hot-melt glue before though. At least if it doesn't work, it should be easy to remove eh? Cheers. |
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I'm afraid I don't know what sort of plastic it is. I'm pretty sure its
not a polythene type though as its quite hard, and one side is very high gloss. There was some sort of black rubbery stuff, possibly silicone, stuck to it before, if that helps. I've personally not had much success with hot melt, but at least it is flexible (unlike epoxy). Hard and glossy could be acrylic or styrene so solvent type glues sound possible. Gorilla glue is perhaps not flexible enough? |
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Newshound wrote:
I'm afraid I don't know what sort of plastic it is. I'm pretty sure its not a polythene type though as its quite hard, and one side is very high gloss. There was some sort of black rubbery stuff, possibly silicone, stuck to it before, if that helps. I've personally not had much success with hot melt, but at least it is flexible (unlike epoxy). Hard and glossy could be acrylic or styrene so solvent type glues sound possible. Gorilla glue is perhaps not flexible enough? I've thought again, and now think flexibility isn't so important. Gorilla glue isn't advertised as being suitable for plastics though. I notice No Nails glues metals and plastics... perhaps that is worth a try? |
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Newshound wrote:
I'm afraid I don't know what sort of plastic it is. I'm pretty sure its not a polythene type though as its quite hard, and one side is very high gloss. There was some sort of black rubbery stuff, possibly silicone, stuck to it before, if that helps. I've personally not had much success with hot melt, but at least it is flexible (unlike epoxy). Hard and glossy could be acrylic or styrene so solvent type glues sound possible. Gorilla glue is perhaps not flexible enough? The faster epoxies I use - 5 minute - are slightly flexible. |
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Sloper wrote:
Newshound wrote: I'm afraid I don't know what sort of plastic it is. I'm pretty sure its not a polythene type though as its quite hard, and one side is very high gloss. There was some sort of black rubbery stuff, possibly silicone, stuck to it before, if that helps. I've personally not had much success with hot melt, but at least it is flexible (unlike epoxy). Hard and glossy could be acrylic or styrene so solvent type glues sound possible. Gorilla glue is perhaps not flexible enough? I've thought again, and now think flexibility isn't so important. Gorilla glue isn't advertised as being suitable for plastics though. I notice No Nails glues metals and plastics... perhaps that is worth a try? Yes. Mirror glue is another similar compund - spirit based rubbery gunk that sets quite hard. also glues used toi hold shoes soles on. And evostik |
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Newshound wrote: I've personally not had much success with hot melt, but at least it is flexible (unlike epoxy). You'll find it on cars glueing bits of various trim materials together, like say inside a door trim. Like say hardboard type material, various plastics, leather, metal etc. It's not of course the strongest glue in the world. -- *Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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