On 22 Jan 2009 at 14:20, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Yeah... I was just looking that up, since I wanted
some plastic-weld
but don't like paying several dollars per oz at the hobby store... I
guess "proper" liquid polystyrene cement is Methylene Chloride, but
MEK is easy to get at the hardware store by the pint or larger
container.
Just the opposite here--MEK can't be found nearby in town, due to the
city toxics reporting laws (too much trouble to stock it, so
merchants don't). I have to drive to the next town to find it.
I have a few things I'd like to "weld"
up... guess I'll have to find a
source of Methylene Chloride somewhere. It seems to be the right
stuff for many assembly and repair applications.
Hobby shops carry the stuff under various names: Plastiweld is one,
Bondene is another. Oddly, the next largest size that's easy to
obtain seems to be a 55 gallon drum...
It's great for styren or ABS. It's also in many paint strippers.
Cheers,
Chuck