28 Mar
2015
28 Mar
'15
12:45 a.m.
Could it be one of those thick-bodied sealing lacquers, such as used to fix
trimmer controls in place, and so on? I've seen them in deep green, red and
a sort of amber color, but not blue.
I'm sure many of us are familiar with the material - it holds fasteners &
control shafts in place very well, but 'shatters' and falls away fairly
cleanly, once you give the treated part a good twist.
Glyptal is also used in those applications, but that material is typically
opaque and a burnt-orange color. It's also a lot tougher.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com>
wrote:
On 27/03/2015 02:27, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
I'm in the process of fixing a floppy drive
mechanism. I had to
replace the heads on the drive with a NOS part and I need to re-glue
the head carriage assembly to the band that attaches to the head
stepper motor. The original adhesive is a clear blue glue of some
sort, I suppose similar to loctite.
It's very unlikely to be cyanoacrylate. "Clear blue" is typical of
low-viscosity epoxy, such as used for optical fibre terminations or to coat
or seal some types of composites. It's often fairly hard or brittle.
I'm surprised it's glued. Not just screwed?
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull