On Saturday (03/06/2010 at 06:37PM +0000), Tony Duell wrote:
There are glues I use with success. The plastic solvent-welding tpye of
adhesives are good (provided you use them on a plastic they will
disolve). I use the well-known trick of strengthing the repair on the
back with some cotton fabric.
Epoxy adhesives are useful too for all sorts of repairs. I've never had
much success with isocyano acrylic hydro-copolymerising adhesives,
though. And contact adhesive is what I sue for sticking on nameplates,
bits of trim, and that sort of thing.
I had good success recently repairing the (very old) clear plastic on
the lid of a Teletype model 33. I was concerned that due to the age of
the plastic, most any solvent based adhesive would at the least fog it
and at the worst, dissolve it.
I used this water soluable, latex based adhesive,
http://www.loctiteproducts.com/products/detail.asp%3fcatid=17&subid=245…
and it worked wonderfully. Dries perfectly clear and Did No Harm(tm) to the
old plastic.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist