On 29 Oct 2020 at 12:17:21 GMT, "AnthonyL" AnthonyL wrote:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:20:56 +0100, Thomas Prufer
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:34:57 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

This looks very powerful stuff. The utensil bowl is a clear hard
plastic, looks and feels very similar to glass (polycarbonate? I don't
know much about plastics). My wife has found the piece that is
broken.

Google for "plastic burn test" for a quick and easy identification.


mmm - ruin a possibly repairable item?


But -- a replacement bowl is £5. That glue is expensive.

Buy it cheaper! :-) 3.21‚¬ a tube here (but in Treznal).


What/where is Treznal? Google isn't much help.

I have at
hand:

Gorilla Contact Adhesive
Wickes Extra Strong Multi-purpose Adhesive
Loctite Super Glue
and somewhere I think a bit of old epoxy (in the twin tube dispensers)

Any opinions. (She's on a third replacement)

There may be a way to glue it using just solvent. This may be acetone (but
possibly methylene chloride), check which plastic it is. Clean both edges
with a
quick wipe of the solvent, join edges, seep solvent into the crack, let sit
motionless and fixed for 24 h.


I recently bought some


https://www.halfords.com/motoring/pa...ml-248893.html

which I was told is primarily Acetone.

What's the worst than can happen?

Other than that, I'd probably try the Loctite Super glue, and give it plenty
of
time to set, fix the edges (tape?) etc.


Yes it's in a position that a clothes peg will hold it nicely.

Apparently polycarbonate dissolves in dichloromethane (aka methylene
chloride). Don't know if you can still get it as paint stripper. Not very
nice to work with.
--
Roger Hayter