[Greenbuilding] [BULK] OT: repairing cracks in plastic tubs

[Lawrence Lile]

Answer: Plenty toxic!  

Lawrence Lile, PE, LEED AP
Project Solutions Engineering

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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 2:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK] OT: repairing cracks in plastic tubs

Especially if it's for indoor use, I wonder how toxic all these 
substances are...

Racheli.


On Jul 27, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Lawrence Lile wrote:

> Plastics are the toughest things to bond to.  In a better hardware
> store, or if you have a Loktite connection at an industrial supply
> house, Loktite sells a product called an Activator, that will set up
> plastic so it will bond better with cyanocrylic glues.  If you can't
> find the activator stuff, then cyanoacrylate might work OK for a
while.
> Epoxies are your next best bet, but they probably won't bond that well
> to most plastics.
>
> Any other glue, such as hot glue, caulk, etc. will fail sooner or 
> later.
>
>
> Duct tape, the real stuff not the cheap stuff, is actually a good
> stopgap.  We pulled out a roll of duct tape on a float trip, and fixed

> a
> cracked plastic canoe, it would work until we scraped the tape off on
> gravel bars, and had to reapply it.  If it weren't for that, we'd have
> been up you-know-what-creek.
>
> Now, what kind of tub are you referring to?  Not a bathtub, I hope.
> Duct tape would really look bad there.
>
> Lawrence Lile, PE, LEED AP
> Project Solutions Engineering


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