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Subject:Re: Need epoxy type suggestion...
From:Max Wellhouse
Date:Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:44:25 -0500

Plastic Welder Rocks and it's less than $2.50 a syringe at Wal
Mart.  Nasty smelling, but 3k# breaking strength and it sets up
pretty quickly.  Cheap version ofthe high grade methyl methacrolate
called Plexus. it  really glues down polycarbonate d ring anchors to
the inside of whitewatrer canoes(inner vinyl surface anyway!)

I always thought griptonite would be a good denture adhesive
name...but then maybe it already is.

DM&FS

At 05:12 PM 8/30/2005, George Goff wrote:
>In a message dated 8/30/05 4:38:00 PM, sjohnso2000@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
><< The metal rod that acts as a henge has worked loose from the enclosure and
>appears to have been held in with some kind of black epoxy. >>
>
>If an adhesive fails once, it will fail again.  I would try to come up with a
>mechanical means to fix the rod in place.  Perhaps you could cross drill it
>and pin it.  As far as adhesives go, one of the best is Devcon MVP 33.
>Although MVP comes from the industrial side of Devcon, a very
>similar formulation is
>available in a two-part consumer version called Devcon Plastic Welder.
>
>Speaking of adhesives, I just bought a tube of glue which has to have the
>greatest name ever thought of for such stuff . . . Griptonite!!!
>
>Georeg

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