Re: Polystyrene Gluing

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• Subject: Re: Polystyrene Gluing
• From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
• Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:08:18 +1200
• Subscriber: MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz Mon Feb 10 22:05:12 1997

Hi all,
         Thanks for the help and suggestions. I previously wrote....

> A friend at work has just advised me that he bought a polystyrene 
> kite kitset a few years ago and they included PVA in the kit for 
> gluing.

I tried this in the weekend and found that the drying time is a lot 
longer than than for wood. Stands to reason of course. The stuff is 
normally absorbed by wood fibres and the solvent/s evaporate easily
whereas the glue is preserved anerobically (sp?) in plastic bottles 
:( It probably won't completely dry as it dries from the outside of 
the seams inwards. It is working to some extent though.

Malcolm

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