Glue is one of the most demanded materials in everyday life and construction. The scope of its application is very wide, the options for use are endless. Clay plasticine is a modification of a traditional substance that allows bonding and sealing almost all materials. The tool is convenient to use and easy to manufacture.
Epoxy glue
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 production of automobiles. For humanity, he is simply irreplaceable.
Epoxy adhesive is most often classified by composition.
Sometimes:
- One-component - completely ready to use, allowing you to apply it to the surface without additional steps. Looks like either a liquid or a strip of plasticine.
- Two-component - consists of resin and hardener. Supplied in two separate bottles. Before use, such glue must be mixed independently to the desired consistency.
Glue plasticine - cold welding
This is one of the types of bonding compound. 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 refers to the bonding of surfaces with epoxy plasticine glue, which provides a strong grip.
Cold welding is not suitable for all types of items. So, epoxy glue will not cope with surfaces made of Teflon, polypropylene, polyethylene and silicone. Despite this, cold welding has become very widespread, because this method has a huge number of advantages. The most important of them are resistance to temperature extremes, humidity and dryness, elasticity, as well as strength and durability. All these qualities have made the tool literally indispensable.
Epoxy instructions
To use epoxy, as with any other, the most important thing is to prepare the surfaces. They should be cleaned as thoroughly as possible, preferably with sandpaper or acetone, which will dissolve any unwanted impurities.
Then with wet gloved hands (this is important to avoid the solution sticking tohim) you need to mix the ingredients in the correct proportion if a two-component adhesive is used, and simply apply it to the surface. Fixation of the gluing site is desirable over the next few hours. However, this parameter is highly dependent on the rate of curing of the adhesive - some quick-setting compounds harden in a few minutes.
Adhesive plasticine is also available for sale, suitable for fixing frames, pictures, calendars and other wall decorations. Such a substance acts as a substitute for adhesive tape, allowing you to fasten light objects without drilling holes in the walls and with the help of nails. This glue really resembles plasticine, but does not leave stains, is easy to use, has higher adhesion.
Self-made
For most people in everyday life, using ordinary store-bought plasticine glue is fine, but for special purposes, you can use a composition made by yourself.
In general, making epoxy glue at home is not difficult. Detailed instructions on how to make glue-plasticine are most often presented on packages with a hardener and epoxy. These are the main components, sold individually at most home improvement stores.
The most common ratio is one part hardener to ten parts epoxy. Depending on these proportions, the properties of the resulting substance will also change.
And in order to get adhesive plasticine of a certain color, which can bewill be used in everyday life as a decorative element, food coloring of the required color should be added to the mixture. All components will need to be thoroughly mixed in a glass container, protecting your hands with gloves. In the future, it must be isolated from air or used immediately after cooking.
Conclusion
Preparation of plasticine glue is a simple task that does not require special skills. Depending on the proportions of the components, it is possible to obtain both a fairly soft and plastic mixture, and an extremely hard substance suitable for gluing surfaces. It is extremely important to follow the instructions that come with the packaging of the components and follow the recommendations of experts. Although the plasticine glue is non-toxic, it is highly discouraged to use it as a toy for a child.
