You can get acrylic as thick as 4" so that way you would glue less pieces.
Brian "cement" Cox
----- Original Message -----
From: Emile <mailto:2stroke@hetnet.nl>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
<mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] glueing acrylic
Thank you for the useful information,
I was studying the possibility of constucting a dome from ring of 50
mm acrylic plate and then machine it (This was discussed before).
Just add 25 % wall thickness for glue uncertainty.
Why not thust glue? All modern airliners are glued together.
I am also working on a tool for blowing a dome, wich has a better
material efficiency.
Grs, Emile
----- Original Message -----
From: No Periscope <mailto:noperiscope@yahoo.com>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
<mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 4:42 PM
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] glueing acrylic
I worked for the university of Colorado for a few years and we
used lots of Acrylic for building test models of buildings and
Dams and just about any thing that needed to be built. We used
a glue called PS 30 and it was very strong. It's a two part
glue and if the two components where not in just the right
amount it would craze. But I never saw any of the joints
separate. However,,,,I would never ever consider using anything
but a full piece for a view port. DJB
Pierre Poulin <pipo305@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi emile,
My friend work at the university here and he glue acrylic
all the time. I
asked him and here is the answer...
You need: a tank about 0.5" deep and Dichloromethane (french
word sorry).
How to do: let's say you have a viewport of 8" diameter. you
need about 1/8"
of Dichloromethane on the bottom of the tank, then you drop
the viewport
into the tank so all the surface you want to glue is dipping
in the dich...
wait for about 15 secondes, pull up the viewport about press
it to the other
surface.
Results: My friend says that you may have some small bubbles
trapped between
the 2 parts. As for strenght, he says that it is as strong
as a full plate
of acrylic. he does boxes shape and when they "destroye"
them, the acrylic
almost always break right next to the join. Not the join itself.
Hope it helps!
P! ierre Poulin
"building a dry-ambient sub"
>From: "Emile" <2stroke@hetnet.nl>
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To:
>Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] glueing acrylic
>Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:12:20 +0200
>
>Hello all,
>
>Can anybody help me to some accurate data about glueing
acrylic to acrylic?
>the following points:
>
>-how stong. absolute and relative to the acrylic
>-methods/ materials
>-optical quality
>
>thanks in advance.
>
>Emile D.L. van Essen
>www.AiResearch.nl
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