Gluing plastics

  • Thread starter Thread starter Hoodi
  • Start date Start date
H

Hoodi

Guest
well, I threw my D200 on the floor today :lol:
Wasn't even a soft landing, I managed to pick some nice jagged looking rocks to throw it at! Anyhoo, the camera body & lens are both fine, but bottom of the flash has cracked, leaving the hotshoe connector sort of dangling.
It still works, but y'know - it's not very practical. Was surprised the D200 fared so well actually - it was the body that hit first, followed by the lens, and then the flash. Good bit of building that!

Anyway, the bottom of the flash looks pretty easy to glue back togethor, I'm just not sure what's going to be most effective at doing the job. Araldite perhaps?

Advice appreciated!
 
yeah araldite will be much stronger than superglue
 
I dont think model glue is going to work, intended for polystyrene which is a fairly soft plastic - as mentioned araldite might work.
 
There's a new bread of two pack Acrylic glues out there. The bond they produce on a variety of plastics is amazing. See if you can locate one of this type. Don't use a super glue, the bond will break down in 18 months or so :(
 
Get yourself into an Aero-modelling shop.... there are dozens of two part epoxies which are designed for this kind of "fixing"....

Oh, and don't go testing it by throwing your engineering marvel around again! :lol:
 
I used to work in a model shop in a previous life.

Super glue is a no. It's only really any good for gluing skin together (It was used heavily in Vietnam for just that)

As others have said 2 part epoxy resins (Araldite) are the best bet.

If not try and find this

http://www.zapglue.com/New Pages/Zap Goo.html

It's an American glue and used to to be imported by this lot

http://ripmax.com/

I use to use this a lot. It used to stick where all other sticky things didn't.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top