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"Phil Cook" wrote in
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Max Demian wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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*Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Well the people who make the glue are really, really clever and make
the bottles of something that the particular type of glue doesn't
stick to.

The makers of Araldite must be stupid then. :-)

Araldite isn't sold in a bottle.

If you want to go into detail, there are also glues that require contact
with the air/evaporation to stick, so in that case they just have to be kept
in an airtight container, such as a tube, which may or may not be made of a
material they are capable of sticking, such as a soft metal.

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Max Demian

"Dave Farrance" wrote in
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Dave Fawthrop wrote:

Niether araldite resin nor hardener are adhesives on their own.
Mixed is a different matter.

Even the Araldite mixture isn't an adhesive if it's too thin!

I once broke the handle off a mug that I really liked. So I mixed up
some 24-hour araldite (not the weaker 5-minute stuff)

Where do you get that?

The last time I looked, the only Araldite (tm) I could found was supposed to
stick in *90 seconds* - it came in a double syringe arrangement with just
two disposable mixing nozzles. What use is that?

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Max Demian

"Max Demian" wrote:

"Dave Farrance" wrote:

I once broke the handle off a mug that I really liked. So I mixed up
some 24-hour araldite (not the weaker 5-minute stuff)

Where do you get that?

The last time I looked, the only Araldite (tm) I could found was supposed to
stick in *90 seconds* - it came in a double syringe arrangement with just
two disposable mixing nozzles. What use is that?

Seems that the slow stuff is now called "Araldite Precision", so Google
on that.

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Dave Farrance

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Dave Fawthrop wrote:

Niether araldite resin nor hardener are adhesives on their own.
Mixed is a different matter.

Even the Araldite mixture isn't an adhesive if it's too thin!

I once broke the handle off a mug that I really liked. So I mixed up
some 24-hour araldite (not the weaker 5-minute stuff) and spread a thin
layer on the broken ends on both the handle and the mug, then very
carefully lined them up and pressed them together. I managed to line it
up well enough that the broken surfaces keyed correctly into each other
and the araldite was squeezed out of the gap, and I pressed hard enough
so that there was hardly any visible join, then wiped off the excess. I
then tied it tightly and left it for a day. Next day, I untied it and
looked at it and decided that I couldn't have a more perfect repair. I
gave the handle an experimental pull and it just fell off.

I later read that epoxy resin has to have a minimum thickness to work.
Something like 0.1mm - although they're too polite to mention that
little fact on the instructions.

You'd have been better off using a cyanoacryllate (sp?) adhesive
(superglue) designed for joining parts in exactly the way you had tried.
This type of glue works better the thinner the glue layer. However, with
a porous surface you need to fill the pores with a liquid to block the
capillary action that would absorb the superglue (water is usually
sufficient in most cases). Applying superglue as the 'filler' has the
downside of extending the 'curing time' from the ten seconds or so in
the case of perfectly mated non-porous surfaces to several hours if not
several days.

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"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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*Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Well the people who make the glue are really, really clever and make
the
bottles of something that the particular type of glue doesn't stick
to.

I thought I was going to make a fortune out of universal solvent, but
I couldn't find anything to keep it in.

Martin

Max Demian wrote:

"Phil Cook" wrote in
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Max Demian wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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*Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Well the people who make the glue are really, really clever and make
the bottles of something that the particular type of glue doesn't
stick to.

The makers of Araldite must be stupid then. :-)

Araldite isn't sold in a bottle.

True but I wouldn't mind betting you can get larger quatities of epoxy
resin in bottles.

I don't use Araldite very often, I think the last time was over three
years ago to stick a repacement "window" cut from a cassette box into
a moble phone that had been run over!
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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

GM6TRS wrote:

I thought I was going to make a fortune out of universal solvent, but
I couldn't find anything to keep it in.

That problem has a solution.

ESB

Bill Wright wrote:
"Phil Cook" wrote in message
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FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they
won't believe you.

I suppose you lot in the effite south think that this is a parody. Well no,
in Yorkshire we really do eat gravel and work 28 hours a day for no pay.

Bill

Really? Well there's this aerial I'd like looking at....

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In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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Dom Robinson wrote:
This old dear rung the management agent this morning to complain that
we were putting adverts on the CCTV, and thus making money out of it.
We had been advertising Tesco apparently. We were baffled, and I
asked one of the more sane ones in the block if he had any idea what
she was on about. He went round and had a chat with her, and it
turned out that the advert appears most mornings at about 11am, for
five minutes or so. He realised at this point that what she had seen
was the side of the Tesco delivery van. Apparently the driver always
parks in the same place and his van fills the view of one of the
cameras.

!!!!! Presuming she's had kids, how was someone like her allowed to
breed?

You've not much experience of some old folk? ;-)

If stupid people weren't allowed to breed, the world would be a very
quiet place.

LOL!
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Alan Pemberton wrote:
I suppose you lot in the effite south think that this is a parody.
Well no, in Yorkshire we really do eat gravel and work 28 hours a
day for no pay.

Really? Well there's this aerial I'd like looking at....

You'll find that they don't work for nowt if they have to leave
Yorkshire. There's the trauma of having to cross the border to be
factored in for a start.

I wonder where 'all mouth and trousers' comes from? ;-)

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*Half the people in the world are below average.

Dave Plowman London SW
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