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what glue to use

Eddski

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i am thinking of using some aluminium in my segmenting and was wondering what glue people use?
 

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I found Everbuild stick2 HV super glue (blue label) the best on all my metal to wood bonded surfaces and reasonably cheap and the red label for filling in cracks. I have used others, but I found that some were useless in bonding. Your Axminster's glue sounds to be a good bonding glue.
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Either a good quality Ca glue or 2 Part Epoxy. Just remember as Pierre stated to give the metal a key for the glue to stick well as well as making sure it is grease/oil free by giving it a clean with acetone/the wife's nail remover
 

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Either a good quality Ca glue or 2 Part Epoxy. Just remember as Pierre stated to give the metal a key for the glue to stick well as well as making sure it is grease/oil free by giving it a clean with acetone/the wife's nail remover

I dunno, between losing the emery boards and the nail varnish remover its no wonder the nail bars are complaining!! Its got nothing to do with coronavirus :funny:

On a serious note I did find that even though ca glues tell you 'fast acting/15 mins etc' its a lie; super glue takes longer than 2 part epoxies to cure and 3 days seems to be a good rule of thumb, 2 part epoxy is good (but again a decent cure is between 24 hours and 2 days) and because it's thicker it seems to me to leave a thicker glue line between the 2 materials which is why I no longer use it on mixed wood fine assemblies like veneer banding etc.
 

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I dunno, between losing the emery boards and the nail varnish remover its no wonder the nail bars are complaining!! Its got nothing to do with coronavirus :funny:

On a serious note I did find that even though ca glues tell you 'fast acting/15 mins etc' its a lie; super glue takes longer than 2 part epoxies to cure and 3 days seems to be a good rule of thumb, 2 part epoxy is good (but again a decent cure is between 24 hours and 2 days) and because it's thicker it seems to me to leave a thicker glue line between the 2 materials which is why I no longer use it on mixed wood fine assemblies like veneer banding etc.

When using epoxy mix it with some mica powder to give a slight line of colour either side of the ali
 
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