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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Thomas Stangl wrote:
> > MEK is about all that will work well. The parks use a combo of MEK and
> > liquid ABS resin, but MEK will work well enough. You can get pint cans
> > of it at various hardware stores, I'm pretty sure HD/Lowe's would have
> > it in the paint dept. If not, try mom&pop hardware stores.
> >
> > Be careful using it, as I believe it will damage the normal finish of
> > the bricks (I think that is what the liquid ABS is for - increased
> > adhesion, and giving a glossy surface). Try to only put it on the
> > internals of the bricks before pressing them on the sculpture, and go
> > light on it.
> >
> > Use it outdoors, it's nasty stuff.
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Thanks for all of your suggestions--the event organizer is handling the gluing
> of the trophies now, so all I had to do was build them. He had been using Crazy
> Glue as one person had suggested, but it was pretty expensive. I had a can of
> Oatey's cement from a failed rtl event I had tried to get people interested in
> (yeah, neither Chris nor I always get events we want-ref PipeRacers) as Larry
> had suggested and gave it to him to try. We'll see what he chooses in the end.
I think it is a rare sort of glue where I say that crazy glue is LESS nasty, but
it is... Oateys IS nasty stuff, so in my view that's a reason to use CA/ACC.
That said, and while I know Ondrew has done some great work (and others have
too) with CA/ACC (Crazy Glue is technically just a brand name I think), I think
Oateys works a lot better on ABS. CA/ACC has bond strength mostly in tension. It
does not take shear well at all and thus if the trophies are dropped, and you
get unlucky as to how they land, they can still break.
Oateys, like MEK, actually melts the plastic together and thus has good bond
strength, but it's somewhat easier to get and somewhat safer than MEK.
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