On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:32:38 -0400, Nate Nagel
wrote:

On 10/02/2011 09:13 AM, DFBonnett wrote:
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:30:40 -0400, jeff_wisnia
wrote:



SWMBO and I were visiting family graves at a nearby cemetary today (It's
a Jewish tradition to pay such visits the week before the Jewish new
year begins.)

The oval ceramic tile with her grandmother's photo on it had fallen out
of its recess in her granite tombstone and fortunately I found it in the
grass alongside the stone.

Whatever had been holding it in place for about 60 years finally gave up
and let go. The remains of it in the recess are frangible and feel like
some sort of "plaster".

The back surface of the oval ceramic tile is unglazed and the surface it
will be attached to is smooth granite.

The "This to That" website isn't very helpfull, they don't mention
"stone" and their references to ceramic refer to broken dishes and the like.

http://www.thistothat.com/

I'm thinking some type of epoxy would probably work best, but I'm open
to suggestions.

Thanks guys,

Jeff


JB Weld. Available at Home Depot and just about everywhere. It's a two
part adhesive so you'd have to mix it on site. Practice on something
at home to get the feel of it, clean up both sides to be adhered, mix
a batch, then apply. It will last longer than any of us will.

That would be my first thought, but apropos of my last post, I had
excellent luck gluing two pieces of floor tile together with Loctite
brand 5-minute heavy duty epoxy.

NB: it really doesn't set up in 5 minutes; it just becomes unworkable
after 5 minutes, so you need to jig the two pieces together somehow.
The same goes for JB-weld, but that product doesn't even advertise
itself as fast setting.

nate

Duct tape should hold it in place for the requisite cure time.