No matter what glue you use, the bond will never be strong enough for it not
to break at the same place. Risk of doing more damage from glue is more
likely, raising repair price.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dacey" <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] T-32 Foot crack
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|
| John Hermanson wrote:
| >
| > Crazy glue will get into the spring loaded contacts in the shoe and make
| > them non-working. Then the shoe will break again along the same line
that
| > was glued.
|
| What about the possibility of plastic cement (aka polystyrene (sp?)
| cement)? The glue actually melts the plastic, doesn't do a thing to
| metal (it's a bit sticky so it might gum something up a bit but it's
| been awhile since I've used any). I've found that it works quite
| effectively depending on the plastic used. I've had good luck when the 2
| pieces are of the same plastic. Mixing different plastics doesn't seem
| to work as well.
|
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| Andrew "Frugal" Dacey,
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| http://www.tildefrugal.net/
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