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Re: Loctite for bonding Lego
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Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:03:46 GMT
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Make sure if you are using Methly Ethyl Ketone  (and possibly) Methly Ethyl
Ketone Peroxide that you wear protection for eyes , skin & lungs, it is real
caustic nasty, nasty, stuff. It is used in 2 part epoxy glues and resins as
a catalyst. Only mix a small amount at a time, it sets REAL fast.

In lugnet.general, Greg Majewski writes:
I need to  bond together multiple bricks for a current project. The stuff I
was thinking of using is made by Loctite; it's probably some of the
strongest epoxy I've ever used. Anyway: Does anyone have experience with
this stuff and Lego? I need the bond to be as strong as possible (which it
will be) but I don't want the Lego damaged. In short: will Loctite in any
way weaken the bricks? Thanks much.

Greg Majewski



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  Re: Loctite for bonding Lego
 
(...) MEK is not as bad as MEKP. MEKP is used in epoxies, MEK is used as the flow on glue. MEK is what Lego uses (or were using) for models that are cemented together, and can be bought at a hardware store. (and, whist MEK is not as bad as MEKP, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Loctite for bonding Lego
 
I need to bond together multiple bricks for a current project. The stuff I was thinking of using is made by Loctite; it's probably some of the strongest epoxy I've ever used. Anyway: Does anyone have experience with this stuff and Lego? I need the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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