Steve: I guess I moved my followups on this to "The Story of My Liquid Nails Fail" thread. Is a photo of the tube there.
On Sep 5, 2017 1:56 PM, "Steve Upstill" <upst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ken, > > There are a lot of products under the Liquid Nails brand. Could you post a > picture or an Amazon link to the one you used? > > Thanks, > Steve > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:51 AM ken winston caine < > ken.winston.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Posted this also under "The Story of My Liquid Nails Fail." But is >> relevant here as well. >> >> REVISION: LIQUID NAILS SUCCESS >> >> NEW TEST: Liquid Nails vs. Epoxy >> >> -1- Liquid Nails, spread thinly with putty knife, on smooth flat >> beveled-cut surface, with some tiny holes scratched into both facing >> surfaces with a wallpaper scouring tool, then clamped and cured for 24 >> hours, works BEAUTIFULLY! Incredible strength. And Liquid Nails *claims* >> its repairs will outlast the life of the original material. Am going to >> trust that it will last for my purposes. >> >> -2- Epoxy, surfaces prepared the same way as above and spread evenly over >> entire face, simply did not dig in to anything but the utter topmost layer >> of polyiso fuzz. And the adhered parts easily snapped apart after 24 hours >> cure time. When snapped apart, I observed the epoxy "bond" covered with >> maybe 1/100 inch of polyiso fuzz. Is possible that if I had punched a lot >> of tiny 1/2" deep holes in each face and smeared on the epoxy much thicker >> to fill those punched holes, that I would have gotten a stronger bond. But, >> given the positive results with the Liquid Nails, once spread with a putty >> knife, and its *substantially* lower cost, I am not going to do any further >> testing with epoxy resin at this time. Also is possible that epoxy would >> work with NEW polyiso boards. Mine are salvaged boards, possibly 20 or more >> years old. (They do age, outgas, lose R-Factor over time. And maybe mine >> are fuzzier along my cuts than new boards would be. I don't know.) >> >> So ... I am going with the much less expensive Liquid Nails for my >> project. >> >> That means I must create some 30-degree-angle braces (out of 2x4s?) that >> I can clamp onto roof-cone sections as I glue them to hold the adhered >> parts together tightly for the 24 hours cure time. And created >> 30-degree-angle braces for the wall sections. >> >> >> As an additional measure, am going to use an awl to punch a dozen or more >> 1/4" deep random holes along each face to be adhered to allow for much >> greater material penetration in those spot, expecting that will make for a >> stronger, more durable bond once cured. >> >> Also, am going to test using rubbing alcohol or acetone on a cloth to >> lightly rub the surfaces to be joined to see if that will help clean away >> dusty fuzz. (Or whether it melts the polyiso.) >> >> Additional observations regarding my earlier Liquid Nails fail: >> >> Because I was attempting to reattach two broken pieces with very uneven >> faces, I was not able to smoothly smear Liquid Nails on the broken faces. >> But on smooth-cut bevels, it smears easily, evenly, with a putty knife >> despite its vicosity. In this latest test, I applied it to only one of the >> two surfaces to be joined. I don't recall for sure, but think I might have >> applied it to both surfaces of the broken pieces in the test that failed. >> >> On Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 2:54:31 PM UTC-6, ken winston caine >> wrote: >>> >>> Fail was my fault. >>> >>> 1. I didn't clamp the boards after gluing. >>> 2. I thought a 70 lb. pallet would be adequate to keep a wind gust from >>> causing a problem during overnight cure. >>> 3. I had assumed the Liquid Nails compound would be less viscous and >>> more grabby and that I could spread/smear it over the entire surface of >>> each face to join. Not possible. Instructions say to apply in a zig-zag >>> design, so that is what I tried. <snip> >>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "hexayurt" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
