Steve Jernigan wrote: > > At 04:26 PM 6/28/99 -0400, Elaine Harmon wrote: > > >> However for what it's worth, look for a product called "Barge Cement". It's > > > >Does anyone know whether it sticks to polyethylene? I always thought > >nothing did; this would be great to know. > > What household items are PE? A milk jug, maybe? I have some gallon plastic > bottles made from nalgene, I think that's pretty similar to PE, I think the Nalgene bottles are linear HDPE. Not sure about milk jugs. > FWIW, sometimes if you roughen the surface with coarse sandpaper or a rasp > you can get a mechanical bond even if the chemistries are incompatible. This has worked for me on PE yaks for attaching foam. The foam just needs to resist side loading -- not straight-out pulls. FWIW, the "Barge Cement" around here is black, gooey stuff. The yellow stuff you describe sounds like Weldwood Contact Cement (hardware stores), which I have used extensively to bond minicell and PE. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 30 1999 - 23:26:50 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:10 PDT