I'm thinking of laminating wood to plexi for walking canes.
Can anyone recommend an adhesive that will dry clear enough to allow the
wood grain to show through the plexiglas and strong enough to use on
this sort of item?
Going on thin might be an advantage in avoiding gaps. I will have a
press by morning to do the clamping and will be able to exert
considerable force.
Bill
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Bob Heveri wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Try this website.
>
> Bob Heveri
>
Um ... in a hurry?
(psst ... no link!)
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[email protected] wrote:
> Years ago I used a product called J Bond. Can't think of the
> chemical name. It softens up the surface of the plexi (casting
> resin). Need to work fast as this stuff evaporates very fast.
>
> Call up a plastics supply place and ask for the 'solvent' for plexi.
>
> Pete
>
Thanks for the tip. I'm sort of hoping that Bob can get back to me with
a link but I hadn't considered ordinary solvent adhesive. My mind set
was more along the line of a clear epoxy. Hmmm methinks I need to do
still more thinking.
Bill
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[email protected] wrote:
> The stuff I used had a trade name of Jay Bond. The chemical name
> eludes me but it uses 42$ worth of alphabet.
>
> Pete
Thanks, Pete. For the use I have in mind, alignment isn't critical ...
but thanks for the tip of wetting the wood, too. I have some novel ideas
in mind and some gen-you-wine plexiglas sitting here that my former
employer paid another guy to mess up because they didn't trust me to
louse it up. ;-)
I probably wouldn't have trashed as much of it ... so that I wouldn't
have ended up with as much on my shelves as I have.
Yup ... things worked out better their way.
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[email protected] wrote:
> The stuff I used had a trade name of Jay Bond. The chemical name
> eludes me but it uses 42$ worth of alphabet.
>
> Pete
>
Would that be methylene di-chloride?
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Bill,
Try this website.
Bob Heveri
"Bill in Detroit" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'm thinking of laminating wood to plexi for walking canes.
>
> Can anyone recommend an adhesive that will dry clear enough to allow the
> wood grain to show through the plexiglas and strong enough to use on this
> sort of item?
>
> Going on thin might be an advantage in avoiding gaps. I will have a press
> by morning to do the clamping and will be able to exert considerable
> force.
>
> Bill
> --
> Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one
> rascal less in the world.
> Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
> http://nmwoodworks.com
>
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:57:50 -0500, Bill in Detroit <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I'm thinking of laminating wood to plexi for walking canes.
>
>Can anyone recommend an adhesive that will dry clear enough to allow the
>wood grain to show through the plexiglas and strong enough to use on
>this sort of item?
>
Years ago I used a product called J Bond. Can't think of the
chemical name. It softens up the surface of the plexi (casting
resin). Need to work fast as this stuff evaporates very fast.
Call up a plastics supply place and ask for the 'solvent' for plexi.
Pete
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:28:07 GMT, "CW" <[email protected]> wrote:
>The only way that a plastic solvent is going to stick anything to anything
>is to dissolve both parts. Kind of hard to do with wood.
>
The solvent semi melts the plexi surface - enuff to smear up your
hands if your sloppy. The semi melted plastic is like glue. If you
work fast and slap the plexi to the wood and lightly clamp it, you get
a bond. Actually quite a strong bond. I've used this to laminate
some colored plexi together and with wood (oak and walnut) to make
boxes, pen holders, etc. It's an Industrial Arts project thing.
Use the solvent liberally and in a ventilated area. The solvent is
quite volatile. The plexi is wetted down with the solvent - be
generous and while still wet the wood or other plastic (also wetted)
is applied and clamped. The hard part is keeping things aligned
until clamped.
The stuff I used had a trade name of Jay Bond. The chemical name
eludes me but it uses 42$ worth of alphabet.
Pete
The only way that a plastic solvent is going to stick anything to anything
is to dissolve both parts. Kind of hard to do with wood.
"Prometheus" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:59:22 -0500, Bill in Detroit <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >[email protected] wrote:
> >
> >> Years ago I used a product called J Bond. Can't think of the
> >> chemical name. It softens up the surface of the plexi (casting
> >> resin). Need to work fast as this stuff evaporates very fast.
> >>
> >> Call up a plastics supply place and ask for the 'solvent' for plexi.
> >>
> >> Pete
> >>
> >
> >Thanks for the tip. I'm sort of hoping that Bob can get back to me with
> >a link but I hadn't considered ordinary solvent adhesive. My mind set
> >was more along the line of a clear epoxy. Hmmm methinks I need to do
> >still more thinking.
>
> Seems like the solvent route may be the way to go- at least to my
> mind. Less likely to get bubbles under the plexiglass.
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:59:22 -0500, Bill in Detroit <[email protected]>
wrote:
>[email protected] wrote:
>
>> Years ago I used a product called J Bond. Can't think of the
>> chemical name. It softens up the surface of the plexi (casting
>> resin). Need to work fast as this stuff evaporates very fast.
>>
>> Call up a plastics supply place and ask for the 'solvent' for plexi.
>>
>> Pete
>>
>
>Thanks for the tip. I'm sort of hoping that Bob can get back to me with
>a link but I hadn't considered ordinary solvent adhesive. My mind set
>was more along the line of a clear epoxy. Hmmm methinks I need to do
>still more thinking.
Seems like the solvent route may be the way to go- at least to my
mind. Less likely to get bubbles under the plexiglass.