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One more specialty tool is acrylic cement. I've used CA for this job (6mm Plexiglas with butt joints) but it was difficult to get exactly right. In my high load
by imglorp 4y ago
One more specialty tool is acrylic cement. I've used CA for this job (6mm Plexiglas with butt joints) but it was difficult to get exactly right. In my high load situation, joints eventually failed. The right tool here is acrylic cement, which dissolves both surfaces and then they harden as one. It's not easy to find on the intertubes but it's a must if you really need it.
- fwlr 4y agoI don’t know the origins of the term “cement” in glue, but this “dissolves the material so it reforms as a single piece” is the principle of all cement glues, and it’s also why they are all specialty glues - you need specific chemicals to melt specific materials. It works really well. The other common term for glues that form this kind of bond is “weld”, as in plastic weld. That term makes more sense since actual welding is melting metals so they solidify as one piece. (Oh, maybe cement is like liquid stone or something - that might be where that term comes from?)