On 19/10/2020 01:46, John Rumm wrote:
On 18/10/2020 18:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 18/10/2020 12:39, Cursitor Doom wrote:
Gentlemen,

What can these things do that regular gluing techniques can't?
Just curious....


CD

In my model aircraft hobby they are excellent for gluing servos and
other electronic bits in - they dont come off but can be levered off
with some force. They are excellent for gluing crashed foam aircraft
back together - hot glue is stringer than foam

Not a bad glue for large areas of plastic either.

The glue is fast and gap filling and tacks to almost anything but its
not strong.

Yup good for bodging stuff together when there are gaps (and perhaps
bits missing) - you can use the much like you might use a welder - the
glue behaves as both glue and filler material.




Also you can "pot" electrical connections, e.g. if you have floppy mains
wires. You can do this to "make safe" cracked bits of rigid plastic that
are holding conductors in things like switches. Also for exclusion of
moisture. You need some undamaged surrounding material to provide the
containment and overall strength.

I think the last thing I did this on was a slow cooker where some of the
the switch lugs had cracked so that it wanted to come out of the main body.