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They set quicker with activators but it does reduce the bond iirc.
Funny story Re: Super glue, Around ten years back, Answered the door after hearing some loud banging, single lady that lived nearby was kicking at my front door, Standing there with her fingers glued together with a small wooden earring in the middle of them, She had glued the earring back together and held the two halves while it set. Took me ages to gradually prise the fingers apart under a warm running tap. I thought she should have had more sense as she was a school teacher, But as we all know, common sense isn't very common these days!!
I was once sent two pieces of Ally (dont know the grade) stuck together with double sided tape. The task set was to pull them apart. Being a smart ass I put them in a 100T tensile testing machine.....it pulled them apart but it was the Aluminium that failed.
Wasn't in a creamy colour A4 sized folder/book thingie with a selection of small rolls of double sided tape was it?
3M sent my dad several (I guess he filled out a reply card (remember them?) in a trade magazine a few times - I'm still using tape from those rollls - long since lost the ID card for them.
Some I used aged 14 to hold the flybridge onto the top of cabin for a reasonably large radio control cabin cruiser thing - it survived a couple of flips and sinkings in Shipden Park boating lake (seems it wasn't designed to plane ) and is still holding it on 35 yrs later!
I only got them apart as teenager with a hammer, chisel and hacksaw - and again, the aluminium failed.
Never had a bad product from soudal.I used to have one regular job that involved bonding large Fomex panels to an MDF frame we found the best "superglue" was SOUDAL in the 100gram bottles.
The standard round 50gm bottles are far too stiff to squeeze if you need to lay a long bead of glue along in a line, the flater100gm bottles made a huge difference to your hands at the end of the day.
A guy at the Harrowgate wood working show has stand just selling one type of superglue, I his demo's he glues 30mm nuts together face to face, pieces of hard and soft wood, various plastics and rubber "O" rings of all sizes, All given to the "audience" to try to break, after just a few seconds, He recons it will glue anything that doesn't end in ene, (polythene , alkathene, styrene) etc. Doesn't Use a special "bottle" just takes a new bottle from his stock for each demo, Very impressive to see, Price is two 20ml for £10-00
not very long unless you keep it in the fridgeUHU superglue is great. Good bond and lasts in the tube.
That's Powerbond The only C/A I use. A bottle lasts a very long time. Store it in the fridgeA guy at the Harrowgate wood working show has stand just selling one type of superglue, I his demo's he glues 30mm nuts together face to face, pieces of hard and soft wood, various plastics and rubber "O" rings of all sizes, All given to the "audience" to try to break, after just a few seconds, He recons it will glue anything that doesn't end in ene, (polythene , alkathene, styrene) etc. Doesn't Use a special "bottle" just takes a new bottle from his stock for each demo, Very impressive to see, Price is two 20ml for £10-00