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| Thread ID: 138897 | 2015-02-09 02:41:00 | What Glue To Use For Messing (Metal) | mark1978 (13845) | PC World Chat |
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| 1393818 | 2015-02-09 02:41:00 | Hi, we have a bit broken off our antique clock, its messing (metal) and we are wondering if there is glue available that will hold this? There is no tention between the parts when it is glued. Any advice is welcome PS someone recommended (Bunnings Warehouse) Liquid Nails however it is sort of rubbery when its dry and its not glueing properly... |
mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 1393819 | 2015-02-09 06:24:00 | Devcon bronze putty is the thing to used. I have used several of the Devcon products in the past, it is strong, can be drilled and tapped if needs be. www.itw-devcon.co.uk The problem may be finding an engineers supplies that stocks it........................and you will only need a smidgen :) Edit: Alternatively a high strength liquid epoxy |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1393820 | 2015-02-09 06:45:00 | On the other hand, I think the price would make you choke............ www.ebay.com onze+putty&_nkw=devcon+bronze+putty&_sacat=0 :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1393821 | 2015-02-09 09:01:00 | liquid nails is for gluing wood, bunnings should know better. what about brazing or solder? maybe an engineering firm would fix it for you. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1393822 | 2015-02-09 09:26:00 | The problem with soft solder, even more so with hard solder (EasyFlo), is that to get the solder to flow nicely, nearly the whole case being brass, would have to be brought up to temperature. The mechanism would have to be removed first, and the case would likely get discoloured. Epoxy should work, perhaps also the parts could be drilled and pegged to make a stronger join. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1393823 | 2015-02-09 09:34:00 | Loctite 480 | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1393824 | 2015-02-09 18:13:00 | liquid nails is for gluing wood, bunnings should know better.Pfft. Liquid Nails is an awesome adhesive for glueing almost anything to anything; however wood is about the last thing I'd use it for. I've used it for metal to metal and metal to concrete with great results. Plain wood glue is the best thing for wood on wood. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1393825 | 2015-02-09 21:04:00 | Liquid nails are not as good as ice nails, but do work better in summer. ;) For elaborate castings, positioning the parts and temporarily supporting them with plasticine, blu-tak or similar then applying LITTLE thin cyano-acrylate (CA, super glue) and allowing it to race into the join by capillary action works pretty well. It gives a fairly inconspicuous join of moderate strength and if necessary can be removed with acetone. A thin grade CA glue (www.wattsup.co.nz) from model shops is best, hardware and $2 shop CA is usually a degraded product for this application with lower strength and poor "wicking" ability due to impurities and thickeners from the low-cost manufacturing process. Good quality CA is not cheap, cheap CA is not good value. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1393826 | 2015-02-09 21:37:00 | I sure wouldn't do that to an antique. Just replace the broken part......you can buy parts you know....which area you in? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1393827 | 2015-02-09 22:42:00 | Speaking as an antique, I can assure you that replacement parts are pretty tricky to find ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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