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Offline 3 fingers

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Best adhesive for plastic /resin to metal
« on: January 08, 2016, 08:31:27 PM »
Just wondering is there now a better adhesive ,
I want to do gun swaps on metal figures and the replacement  ones are resin/plastic
I used to just use loctite super glue.

Offline DELTADOG

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Re: Best adhesive for plastic /resin to metal
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2016, 08:37:38 PM »
Best adhesive therefore should be an Epoxi 2 Component Cement.
« Last Edit: January 10, 2016, 03:03:30 AM by DELTADOG »

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Re: Best adhesive for plastic /resin to metal
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2016, 01:49:25 AM »
Agreed : 2C epoxy. a bit messy if you use small quantities out of those syringes, but glues about everything.
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Offline Connectamabob

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Re: Best adhesive for plastic /resin to metal
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2016, 02:21:52 AM »
Thirded. I'm quite partial to JB-Weld in particular. The clear goo types are the best for resin/resin, but for tiny stuff and metal/metal, metal/plastic, or metal/resin, JB-Weld is the best I've come across.
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Re: Best adhesive for plastic /resin to metal
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2016, 02:01:19 PM »
If you can make it out to a specialty woodworking shop or a serious hardware store (not the average "home center"), you can get 2-part epoxy in separate bottles. It makes portioning and mixing far easier than the double-barrel syringes.  I find the easiest way to get the same amount is to take the  surface on which I'll be mixing (scrap card, usually) and draw two adjacent, identical circles. Fill each one, and there you go.

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Offline FramFramson

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Re: Best adhesive for plastic /resin to metal
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2016, 09:10:59 PM »
Double barrel syringes are awful. Avoid them like the plague if you have any choice in the matter at all.

Any good hobby shop and some good woodworking/craftsman supply shops should have proper epoxy in separate tubes or bottles.


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Re: Best adhesive for plastic /resin to metal
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2016, 09:20:23 PM »
Two part epoxy here too.  My two cents though is to pin it too.  It increases the surface area for the epoxy to really grab onto. 
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Offline 3 fingers

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Re: Best adhesive for plastic /resin to metal
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2016, 02:50:21 PM »
Thanks everyone,will have a search when I get chance to go in town.

 

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