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To: Deaf Smith

BTW, you should try sometime removing a woofer from a speaker cabinet into which the woofer was “glued” using silicone “caulk”. If the woofer frame is light, you may bend it, and regardless, some of the cabinet will probably depart the rest of the cabinet, with the woofer... (That’s when caulk is too good an adhesive for the job!)

When it comes to solvent base adhesives, I used to have access to a product called “Moyen 3065”. It’s basically a heat activated glue (lay down a layer, let it surface dry to barely tacky, then press the parts together with heat and considerable pressure - bam! Once cooled, it’ll take serious work to get the parts apart again.) But, 3065 can be used as conventional contact cement (just press the parts together while the glue is still soft and tacky) or as a conventional bead of glue and clamp the parts for a few hours. That last gives great adhesion on many surfaces, as the glue has time to really get into the pores of both substrates. However, the solvent base may actually damage some plastic substrates, while not being very effective on, for example, polypropylene.


10 posted on 08/25/2024 8:55:13 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: Paul R.

Somebody at my old job used GE Silicone “caulk” to waterproof some electronics. Except he didn’t use it as a caulk but as a glue.

I only recall the boss coming along and yelling and swearing at him about how is he going to ever get inside it again to repair it now that it is sealed with XXXXX-psi strong glue.


15 posted on 08/25/2024 9:05:10 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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