Using Bicarb soda

[Tonyz]

You may know this already....but couple of days I read where someone was gluing a small plastic prong to a flat piece of plastic. Now trying to glue those together is hard but he used 5 minute supaglu adding bi carb soda, letting that dry then repeating until there was a nice almost welded like rim around the prong, then yesterday I had to get a female plug reglued onto a flat plate the the guy did the same thing.... very smart idea.

[twosheds]

Excuse my ignorance...... but what does the bicarb do?

Twosheds

[Tonyz]

sounds stupid but it helps build a 'shoulder type' thing around where you want to glue. Immagine... a bullet head nail standing on its head on a piece of timber and trying to glue together.... now if you were welding that the flux builds up a 'shoulder'/ring around the join. the bicarb does the same with glue.

Sounds weird but try it out

[twosheds]

Thanks Tonto, I'll file that one away, bound to come in useful one day.