On Wed, 6 May 2015, Mike wrote:

On Wed, 06 May 2015 13:08:05 -0700, Dave Platt wrote:

Cyanoacrylates (super glue) is very brittle which doesn't work on
flexible plastics, which includes some wall warts. I've glued them in
spots around the perimeter, only to have the case pop open when I
dropped the wall wart on the floor. I suspect more glue would be
better, but have never tried it.

There are "toughened" cyanoacrylates which are supposed to be better
about this... the ones I've seen apparently include some extremely fine
rubber particles or other fillers. Most of the big glue manufacturers
seem to sell one variant or another of this.

I haven't spotted any mention of hot-melt glue guns - not suitable?

That's really good for a lot of things, but the hot glue can run again if
it gets too hot, so it might not be suitable here.

I used it for something, and was fine, then one day noticed it was no
longer doing its job, the glue had melted.

On the other hand, that's a value for some things, you can melt the glue
and rearrange things.

I had a good halogen lamp from Ikea that used an external AC adapter. It
went bad one time, if I recall there was fuse in there. So I had to open
it up. WHen I put it back to gether, I used epoxy, which is kind of
messy, and relatively permenent. But it still holds.

Michael