jttheclockman
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I was wondering what glues you all use to glue your pens together particularly when using segments and using disimilar materials such as plastics, with metals and acrylics????
I have used CA when doing knots and the parts were all wood and have had great success. I always use epoxy ( System 3 T88) for gluing in tubes in anything.
Well I have been playing around with gluing metals together along with gluing plastic sheets and getting nonfavorable results. Have been trying gluing aluminum to brass, have glued aluminum to black plastic strips, have glued brass to black plastic strips, and I have not yet drilled and added tubes which might give them more strength but I found I can break the joint of the metal and plastic fairly easily and am worried that this will be a problem in the future when I spin and shape the pen and assemble. There will be even less material there to bond. I have roughed all parts involved and made sure I did this just prior to glueing so no oxidation takes place before gluing or at least to the best of my ability. I have wiped down the parts with acetone to get any fingerprints off.
So my question is those that glue metals to metal and metals to plastics and acrylics what glue do you use and why??? Is there a prep step I am missing??? Thanks for the replys.
I have used CA when doing knots and the parts were all wood and have had great success. I always use epoxy ( System 3 T88) for gluing in tubes in anything.
Well I have been playing around with gluing metals together along with gluing plastic sheets and getting nonfavorable results. Have been trying gluing aluminum to brass, have glued aluminum to black plastic strips, have glued brass to black plastic strips, and I have not yet drilled and added tubes which might give them more strength but I found I can break the joint of the metal and plastic fairly easily and am worried that this will be a problem in the future when I spin and shape the pen and assemble. There will be even less material there to bond. I have roughed all parts involved and made sure I did this just prior to glueing so no oxidation takes place before gluing or at least to the best of my ability. I have wiped down the parts with acetone to get any fingerprints off.
So my question is those that glue metals to metal and metals to plastics and acrylics what glue do you use and why??? Is there a prep step I am missing??? Thanks for the replys.