help glueing deodorant bottle

raser13 · Post by **raser13** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:10 pm

hey guys this is a little more of an odd question. i'm building the vacu-form avenger class ship and i was wanting to correct the issue of no main sensor dish on it. i decided that i wanted to use the lid off of an old deodorant stick. the only problem is that the plastic that it's made of won't let super glue or resin stick to it. i even roughed up the plastic to try to get the resin to stick together, and no good. anyone have any idea what i could use to get this to stick to the model?

Chacal · Post by **Chacal** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:19 pm

Mechanical means: wires, screws... A few plastics (almost all of the ones used in deodorant and food containers) are notoriously 'ungluable'. Some will accept forms of hot-melt glue, some not even that. If you can add wires looped through the part (like a shirt button) and attach those wires to the 'hull', that's the best way. Or you can use small screws (maybe reading glasses hinge screws with nuts).

Rogviler · Post by **Rogviler** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:17 pm

I wish I could remember who turned me onto this stuff because they deserve the finder's credit, but about the only glue out there for polypropylene and polyethelene (probably one of those is what you have) is Tech-Bond. It will glue anything, including Teflon, which is just mind boggling.

I'd get the Basic Plus, because you get twice as much for only $5 more.

-Rog

Master Jedi Mike · Post by **Master Jedi Mike** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:36 pm

If I may paraphrase Laurie Berkner;

"Wait a minute, we're modelers! We don't wear deodorant!"

"Let's go swimming, let's go swimming..."

Joseph Osborn · Post by **Joseph Osborn** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:30 pm

Could you use the deodorant cap to make a smash-formed or vac-formed shape from plain old styrene? Thus negating the need to invest in an uber-adhesive...?

raser13 · Post by **raser13** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:46 pm

Joseph Osborn wrote:Could you use the deodorant cap to make a smash-formed or vac-formed shape from plain old styrene? Thus negating the need to invest in an uber-adhesive...?

i liked the odd ball green color of it. that's why i didn't just mold it up and resin cast it. i'll have to give the tech bond a try.thanks.

Rogviler · Post by **Rogviler** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:13 am

Tech-Bond is nice to have around because, unlike superglue, it actually WILL glue a man wearing a hard hat to a steel beam.

-Rog