Glue is one of the most popular materials in everyday life and construction. The scope of its application is very wide, the options for use are endless. Plasticine glue is a modification of a traditional substance that allows fastening and sealing of almost all materials. The tool is convenient to use and easy to manufacture.
Epoxy adhesive
This product is a synthetic substance. It consists of epoxy resin and a variety of hardeners and plasticizers. Its properties are such that upon contact with air, it turns from a liquid or soft mass into a solid and firmly holding substance. This product is used in construction, and in everyday life, and in aircraft design, and in shipbuilding, and in the manufacture of automobiles. For humanity, it is simply irreplaceable.
Epoxy glue is most often classified by composition.
It happens:
- One-component - completely ready for use, allowing you to apply it to the surface without additional action. It looks like either a liquid or a strip of plasticine.
- Two-component - consists of resin and hardener. Comes in two separate bottles. Before use, such an adhesive must be mixed independently to the desired consistency.
Plasticine glue - cold welding
This is one of the types of bonding composition. Cold welding is the name of a method that allows you to connect objects, including metal, without the use of welding equipment and high temperatures. Most often, this term means bonding surfaces with epoxy plasticine glue, which provides strong adhesion.
Cold welding is not suitable for all types of items. So, epoxy glue can not cope with surfaces made of Teflon, polypropylene, polyethylene and silicone. Despite this, cold welding is very widespread, because this method has a huge number of advantages. The most important of them is resistance to temperature changes, humidity and dryness, elasticity, as well as strength and durability. All these qualities have made the tool literally indispensable.
Epoxy Advice
To use epoxy glue, as for any other, the most important thing is to prepare the surface. They should be cleaned as thoroughly as possible, preferably with sandpaper or acetone, which will dissolve all undesirable impurities.
Then, with wet hands in gloves (this is important to avoid the solution sticking to them), you need to mix the ingredients in the correct proportion if two-component glue is used, and simply apply it to the surface. Fixing the gluing point is desirable over the next few hours. However, this parameter is highly dependent on the rate of curing of the glue - some quick-setting compositions harden in a few minutes.
Plasticine glue is also available for fixing frames, paintings, calendars and other wall decorations. Such a substance acts as a substitute for adhesive tape, allowing you to fix light objects without drilling holes in the walls and using nails. This glue really resembles plasticine, but does not stain, is easy to use, and has higher adhesion.
Do it yourself
For most people, the use of a regular store plasticine glue is suitable for everyday use, however, for special purposes, you can also use a self-made composition.
In general, there is nothing complicated in making epoxy glue at home. Detailed instructions on how to make plasticine glue are most often presented on packages with a hardener and epoxy resin. They are the main components that are sold separately in most stores for construction and repair.
Most often, the proportions are as follows — one part hardener per ten parts epoxy. Depending on these proportions, the properties of the obtained substance will also change.
And in order to get adhesive-plasticine of a certain color, which can be used in everyday life as a decorative element, you need to add food coloring of the desired color to the mixture. All components will need to be thoroughly mixed in a glass container, protecting hands with gloves. In the future, it must be isolated from air or used immediately after preparation.
Conclusion
Preparation of clay clay is a simple task that does not require special skills. Depending on the proportions of the components, it is possible to obtain both a sufficiently soft and plastic mixture and an extremely hard substance suitable for gluing surfaces. It is imperative to follow the instructions that came with the package with the components and follow the recommendations of specialists. Although plasticine glue is non-toxic, using it as a toy for a child is highly discouraged.