13 Oct
2010
13 Oct
'10
7:06 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, John Foust wrote:
At 10:54 PM 9/21/2010, Fred Cisin wrote:
While googling for rubber restorer alternatives to improve the pickup
rollers on old Laserjets (in particular the use of Marvel Mystery Oil)
I stumbled on discussions of mixing baking soda with super-glues.
It acts as a hardening accelerant (leading to exothermy) and as a filler
of small gaps. It sounds like it hardens almost instantly, ready for
sanding and paint.
Those of us that build R/C airplanes use a product called "microbaloons"
that are used this same way, quite often mixed with epoxy.
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> up
with joining plastic parts with cyano-acrylate (super-glue) and then
> running a soldering iron along the joint.
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, John Foust
wrote:
What does that do? Heat helps it?
Welding
the joint at the surface.
Even that shallow weld substantially reduces the stress on the joint.
Obviously only suitable for SOME types of plastics.