3M Super Strength Adhevise SUCKS!

Use the cleaning solution first - it opens the surface and while the plastic is still soft you can use the adhesive and it will be even more amazing, and faster. Best bet for plastics like models is toluene based glues, which our glue-sniffing friends of years past have pretty much gotten pulled from the market and replaced with worthless non-sniff glues. Testor's was pretty good way back when, now it just holds the parts together without actually bonding the plastic parts to each other. => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Curt Vendel => Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:52 PM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: Re: 3M Super Strength Adhevise SUCKS! => => => Go to your local Home Depot or Lowes.... go to the PVC Plumbing => section and => by some of the PVC fitting glue, that stuff is amazing, you put => two pieces => of plastic together with that stuff and they are NEVER coming => apart again. => => => Curt => => => ----- Original Message ----- => From: "Tothwolf" <tothwolf(a)concentric.net> => To: "Classic Computers Mailing List" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> => Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:28 PM => Subject: Re: 3M Super Strength Adhevise SUCKS! => => => > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: => > => > > Just wanted to let everyone know that 3M Super Strength Adhevise is => > > absolutely THE WORST adhesive to use on plastics. I bought it => > > specifically for gluing borken plastic pieces as it is advertised as => > > being for such, but all it has done in the two projects I've used it => > > with is make a big mess and ruin everything. => > > => > > All it does is melts the plastic, causing the broken edges to no => > > longer fit snugly, and then it gets all over your fingers when you're => > > trying to press the parts together, which they don't do. It either => > > doesn't make a good bond and requires regluing which then builds up => > > glue along the edge ruining the fit, or adheres but the end result => > > looks shitty. => > => > I'd suggest using a Methylene Chloride based solvent. I bought => some awhile => > back and just started using it. I think it cost me about $3 => for a 2fl. oz => > bottle. I'm sure I could get it at a better price if I shopped => around. So => > far, it has been the only thing I've found that will bond ABS plastics. => > One thing about these type of solvents though, is a little goes a long => > way. Nearly all "plastic glues" or solvents melt the plastics => together. If => > you apply too much or too little, the end result isn't very pretty. => > => > -Toth => > => =>