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Which glue is best

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Regarding the CA glue,I just use poundshop stuff :whistling: 5 20g bottles for £1 and it lasts me ages,use them on wood too...large acrylics or trustone etc gets done with araldite
 
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I haven't done any corian segmented blanks and I'm sure CA is fine but based on my experience with kitchen worktops, my choice would be epoxy.

A version of this is what is used to glue worktops together with pigmentation to create almost invisible joints which are virtually as strong as the material itself

Despite what the marketing blurb says, it is actually porous albeit only very slightly. If you want to test that just put some curry or beetroot on to it and you'll get a rather nasty stain which has to be polished out.

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All I ever use these days is poundland ca.
If I need it to have any filling capacity I quickly mix a bit of talcum powder with it.
Try it. it dries rock hard init?
 
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