My "better half?" bought one of these cheap (~£20) small cold frames.
For planting out a pot of mixed lettuce from the supermarket it's OK.

It consists of panels of double skinned plastic extrusion glued into a
slot in an aluminium extrusion frame - and on one of the lid elements
this glue has failed. Can someone please make suggestions as what
glue would be suitable for this.

Thanks
Rob

On 06/06/2011 11:30, robgraham wrote:
My "better half?" bought one of these cheap (~£20) small cold frames.
For planting out a pot of mixed lettuce from the supermarket it's OK.

It consists of panels of double skinned plastic extrusion glued into a
slot in an aluminium extrusion frame - and on one of the lid elements
this glue has failed. Can someone please make suggestions as what
glue would be suitable for this.

That depends upon the type of plastic, as the bond between that and the
adhesive is likely to be the weak point and different plastics have
different bond strengths to different adhesives. You might find an
aggressive double-sided adhesive tape, such as carpet fixing tape,
better than a glue.

Colin Bignell

Nightjar "cpb"@ insertmysurnamehere wrote:
On 06/06/2011 11:30, robgraham wrote:
My "better half?" bought one of these cheap (~£20) small cold frames.
For planting out a pot of mixed lettuce from the supermarket it's OK.

It consists of panels of double skinned plastic extrusion glued into a
slot in an aluminium extrusion frame - and on one of the lid elements
this glue has failed. Can someone please make suggestions as what
glue would be suitable for this.

That depends upon the type of plastic, as the bond between that and the
adhesive is likely to be the weak point and different plastics have
different bond strengths to different adhesives. You might find an
aggressive double-sided adhesive tape, such as carpet fixing tape,
better than a glue.

Colin Bignell

try hot glue.

Or something in the mastic line.

"Nightjar \"cpb\"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:
On 06/06/2011 11:30, robgraham wrote:
My "better half?" bought one of these cheap (~£20) small cold frames.
For planting out a pot of mixed lettuce from the supermarket it's OK.

It consists of panels of double skinned plastic extrusion glued into a
slot in an aluminium extrusion frame - and on one of the lid elements
this glue has failed. Can someone please make suggestions as what
glue would be suitable for this.

That depends upon the type of plastic, as the bond between that and the
adhesive is likely to be the weak point and different plastics have
different bond strengths to different adhesives. You might find an
aggressive double-sided adhesive tape, such as carpet fixing tape, better than a glue.

That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have a long load triangle fitted. I got one in polycarbonate - the
same material used for cold frame glazing but it was floppy and folded up
when towed at 60. I got some aluminium track and bonded it to the plastic
using "Mammoth" tape. Like carpet tape but much stronger.

Clean the surfaces carefully (I used meths) apply the tape to one surface,
peel off the protection strip press into place. You only get one chance,
the bond is as strong as epoxy.

It's sold by Toolstation as "power grip tape" it is available in 25mm and
50mm widths in rolls of 2.5 metres for £2.50/£4.50 respectively.

Product numbers: 63962, 66322

In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have

Shouldn't this say 'sent from my I-phone while driving' ?

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have

Shouldn't this say 'sent from my I-phone while driving' ?

no. merely incomprehensible firth froth.

I don't see these much since I KF'ed the stupid arrogant sod.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have

Shouldn't this say 'sent from my I-phone while driving' ?

no. merely incomprehensible firth froth.

I don't see these much since I KF'ed the stupid arrogant sod.

Aww bless, perhaps if you didn't type such **** all the time there
wouldn't be any need to correct the ******** you write.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have

Shouldn't this say 'sent from my I-phone while driving' ?

cough almost correct. Sent from my iPhone while in the most boring
meeting I've been in for months.

Steve Firth wrote:

A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have a long load triangle fitted.

You should ask for a refund on your speech recognition software!

On 06/06/2011 17:07, Andy Burns wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:

A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have a long load triangle fitted.

You should ask for a refund on your speech recognition software!

I thought I was in the Stanley Unwin thread.

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Reentrant

Andy Burns wrote:

Steve Firth wrote:

A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have a long load triangle fitted.

You should ask for a refund on your speech recognition software!

It's finger recognition software.

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That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my
digger across Europe. Because the bucket sticks out behind the trailer
it has to have a long load triangle fitted. I got one in polycarbonate -
the same material used for cold frame glazing but it was floppy and
folded up when towed at 60. I got some aluminium track and bonded it to
the plastic using "Mammoth" tape. Like carpet tape but much stronger.

Clean the surfaces carefully (I used meths[1]) apply the tape to one
surface, peel off the protection strip press into place. You only get
one chance, the bond is as strong as epoxy.

It's sold by Toolstation as "power grip tape" it is available in 25mm
and 50mm widths in rolls of 2.5 metres for £2.50/£4.50 respectively.

Product numbers: 63962, 66322


[1] Not for internal purposes, no matter what the previous message
looked like.

On 6/7/2011 6:20 AM, Steve Firth wrote:
Andy wrote:

Steve Firth wrote:

A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe. Because the bucket sucks out behind the trailer it
haste have a long load triangle fitted.

You should ask for a refund on your speech recognition software!

It's finger recognition software.

Can't you disable it?

Huge wrote:

On 2011-06-06, Steve Firth wrote:

That's an excellent suggestion Colin. A few weeks ago I had to tow my
figure across Europe.

Take more water with it.

It's the bloody iPhone, it corrects my typing behind my back.

In article
,
robgraham wrote:
My "better half?" bought one of these cheap (~£20) small cold frames.
For planting out a pot of mixed lettuce from the supermarket it's OK.

It consists of panels of double skinned plastic extrusion glued into a
slot in an aluminium extrusion frame - and on one of the lid elements
this glue has failed. Can someone please make suggestions as what
glue would be suitable for this.

The most likely stuff to work is Evostick Serious glue or similar. But of
course some plastics refuse to glue well.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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