Need GOOD Super Type Glue

[cmort666]

I've got a pump type coffee carafe which is otherwise fine except for a broken plastic part which allows the pump mechanism to fold down. I've tried to fix it on a couple of occasions, but the glue I had wouldn't hold.

Does anybody have any recommendations on a GOOD cyanoacrilate type product for repairing plastic? I'd like to be able to put hot coffee into the carafe since we're afflicted by little black gnats here and would like to be able to stop straining my coffee when I pour it. A few bucks for a tube of glue strikes me as a better deal than $20 for another carafe.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Loctite Gel tends to be good stuff. Goes on thick, so is easy to control.

 

[Marksman]

You might want to try JB Weld, I have used it many times to attach front sight ramps to S&W's. It is really strong stuff and does a good job when it comes to being heat resistant. Heat resistance is a weakness of most super glues and epoxies.

 

[cmort666]

You might want to try JB Weld, I have used it many times to attach front sight ramps to S&W's. It is really strong stuff and does a good job when it comes to being heat resistant. Heat resistance is a weakness of most super glues and epoxies.

Isn't that for metal?

My application won't encounter more heat than a drop or two of coffee.

 

[cmort666]

Loctite Gel tends to be good stuff. Goes on thick, so is easy to control.

I'll give that a try.

Thanks.

 

[oldfella]

This is worth saving:

This to That (Glue Advice)

Pete

 

[cmort666]

This is worth saving:

This to That (Glue Advice)

Pete

That's a useful tool.

Thanks.

 

[truckemup97]

Gorilla Glue? Wait, does Lee have that trademarked or copyrighted?

 

[Vulcan Bob]

JB Weld works very well for plastic.

 

[venomballistics]

the stuff I built RC aircraft with .. ZAP.
its offered in several viscositys thin for tight fitting joints so it'll soak in from the outside while clamped Medium does most things and thick for gap filling .. they also offer accelerator to make the heavier ones set up in a flash.
there may be better superglues than this but most are lesser grade.
its worth heading to an RC airplane hobby shop for it.

 

[cmort666]

the stuff I built RC aircraft with .. ZAP.
its offered in several viscositys thin for tight fitting joints so it'll soak in from the outside while clamped Medium does most things and thick for gap filling .. they also offer accelerator to make the heavier ones set up in a flash.
there may be better superglues than this but most are lesser grade.
its worth heading to an RC airplane hobby shop for it.

There's one not far from here where I buy aviation books.

Thanks.

 

[Rule3]

Loctite Plastic Bonder. Basically super glue with a catalyst.

Works great. I used it on a microwave door handle.

Homer Depot or Lowes

Loctite Epoxy Plastic Bonder from Loctite Adhesives

 

[OFT II]

You might want to try JB Weld, I have used it many times to attach front sight ramps to S&W's. It is really strong stuff and does a good job when it comes to being heat resistant. Heat resistance is a weakness of most super glues and epoxies.

+1 on the JB Weld. In the last 30 or so years I've fixed about everything that broke around here with it including putting a front sight on a '03 Springfield that I've since fired several hundred times. I believe that I could would fix anything except the crack of dawn or a broken heart with it and I would be willing to try to fix the broken heart.

 

[Rule3]

JB Weld is great stuff but it is still just a two part epoxy and not the greatest on all plastic. Metal, yes.

 

[gjamison]

zap a gap. i use it all the time, best stuff out there!!

 

[cmort666]

Loctite Plastic Bonder. Basically super glue with a catalyst.

Works great. I used it on a microwave door handle.

Homer Depot or Lowes

Loctite Epoxy Plastic Bonder from Loctite Adhesives

There are both stores within a mile of each other here.

Thanks.

 

[Rule3]

Actually, the one I used was the super glue with activator. But the one I linked seems better for your fix and it is a epoxy.

I used this one:

Loctite Plastics Bonding System from Loctite Adhesives

Sooo many glues, sooo many things to fix.

 

[Engineer1911]

PVC Pipe Cement, high strength type. Works great on most plastics except glock.

 

[cmort666]

I bought some of the Loctite gel and some 1 min. epoxy.

The Loctite krazy glue was totally ineffective. The two part epoxy (supposedly mixed on extrusion) was an utter disaster. The instructions were obviously drawn in China. The removable nozzle leaked epoxy on my comforter and it didn't work at all. I threw both the carafe and the epoxy away.

The hell with it. I'll just keep straining the nats out until I buy another carafe or a thermos bottle that'll hold ten cups of coffee.

I don't know what kind of plastic was in the pump linkage, but NOTHING will repair it.

 

[rcnixon]

I agree with Venomballistics. Get the "plastizap", it's optimized for plastic. I've used Zap by the liter for exectly what VB used it for.

Russ