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Perspex Glue

  • 27-01-2011 10:31pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 752 ✭✭✭


    Any idea where i might pick some perspex glue up, ive tried the usual woodies, b&q and them.

    Any ideas?

    Its the clear stuff im after its like water when in the bottle.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭chuchyface


    Any good model and hobby shop like http://www.greenhobbymodel.com/index.html shop sell it. Think it's called plastic weld rather than plastic glue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    It's a chemical solvent called dichloromethane. That's the generic chemical name for what people call "plastic weld".

    You'd probably be able to buy a fairly big bottle of it fairly cheaply on the internet. You'll get ripped off buying a 10ml bottle of "plastic weld" from a hardware shop.

    Make sure you buy dichloromethane and exactly that. There's no alternative so don't buy the first thing you see with the word "chloro" in it :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 752 ✭✭✭jayboi


    It's a chemical solvent called dichloromethane. That's the generic chemical name for what people call "plastic weld".

    You'd probably be able to buy a fairly big bottle of it fairly cheaply on the internet. You'll get ripped off buying a 10ml bottle of "plastic weld" from a hardware shop.

    Make sure you buy dichloromethane and exactly that. There's no alternative so don't buy the first thing you see with the word "chloro" in it :pac:

    I had an old bottle i got off a friend years ago, some of the writing has worn away but one of the words definatly ends in 'methane' so i assume its the same as dichloromethane? It has a smell like silicon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    jayboi wrote: »
    I had an old bottle i got off a friend years ago, some of the writing has worn away but one of the words definatly ends in 'methane' so i assume its the same as dichloromethane? It has a smell like silicon.
    Well, if you know it has something to do with joining plastics together chances are that it's dichloromethane.


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