ziggy
spending too much on rocks
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Post by ziggy on Dec 14, 2016 21:24:38 GMT -5
So lexan is polycarbonate and you used acrylic glue. How does that work out? What is the solvent in there? ziggy !! I got on ePlastics web site and looked up what glue they had listed for lexan. It said #16 was for lexan. That's all I know. It really worked well though. Welded the stuff together with ten minutes set up time. Just went and looked at the label on it. Says Fast Set, Clear medium bodied solvent cement. Working time 5-6 minutes. Fixture time 10 minutes. 80% Strength 24 hours. Says it works on butyrate, polycarbonate, styrene, other plastics and right under that in big letters acrylics (which is what I assume you saw.) If you go look at the picture I posted of the tube of glue I used closely you can read it (the other plastics it works on) too. The ingredients (listed in font almost too small to read with my 60 year old eyes) are methyl actate, dichloromethane, methylene chloride, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl methacrylate monomer. Here's a link to the website I used. glue If you read the description of #16 you can see it will weld either acrylic or polycarbonate. From what I read on their website, you can use # 40 to weld acrylic to polycarbonate.I am not a plastics engineer. Apparently it will work on more than one chain of molecules though. That's why I use what is recommended to do the job.
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