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Specialist car glues, putty and sealants are hard-wearing products that are built for a life on the road. They’re also able to withstand the weather. We have specialist car tapes too that will help you to carry out rapid repairs and detailed restorations or touch-ups. If you need cable ties, we’ve got those too for those urgent fixes (and for tying up cables too). ABS - acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene is an everyday plastic that is widely used today because of its surface hardness, high impact strength and good resistance to weathering, ageing and chemicals. Unfortunately, the low-energy ABS cannot be glued completely without problems with common adhesives and usually this is only possible after a surface treatment with the solvent methyl isobutyl ketone. However, ABS with ABS can also be bonded with methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) / butanone and dichloromethane (methylene chloride). Optimum procedure: Clean bonding surfaces, dry. Apply one coat of adhesive to one or both sides and allow to flash off briefly before pressing together. Further information.
Our tape offering includes reflective tapes, silicone tape, standard masking tapes, and heavy duty masking tapes that are more resistant to weight and weather. Epoxy glues Rubber or rubber-like materials are widely used in industry and everyday life: for example in seals and rollers, in vibration dampers or for footwear. In general, a whole range of different types of adhesives are suitable for bonding rubber. However, the optimum adhesive always depends heavily on the rubber compound and the intended use. Further information.In contrast, the low-viscosity, hot-crosslinked silicone rubber (RTV/NV) is medium-elastic, has good flowability and low viscosity. It is therefore particularly suitable for the manufacture of elastic wax or relief casting moulds, casting moulds for figures or decorative panels, moulds for casting with epoxy / casting resin, cement, plaster or other flowable materials. PMMA - polymethyl methacrylate, also known as Plexiglas and acrylic glass, impresses with its optical and surface properties. In everyday life, corrugated sheets, for example for the roofing of garden arbours or pergolas, are often mistakenly offered as plexiglass. In reality, they are made of polycarbonate or PVC, which can make a big difference when bonding the material. The same applies to so-called hobby glass from the DIY store. For bonding on low-energy plastics such as PMMA, the surface energy is of central importance. However, caution is advised when using certain solvents for bonding preparation. Otherwise, there is a wide range of high-performance adhesives on the market for efficiently bonding PMMA to numerous other materials. Further information.
Plastic components are often fixed with the aid of adhesives to prevent them from slipping during further process handling. Acrylate-based adhesives in particular usually adhere very well to many plastics. They have a strengthening and supporting effect for load transfer and stress reduction. Acrylic adhesives, which are also used for permanent bonding, are characterised by short processing times and high strength to many plastics and elastomers. These adhesives achieve, for example, as 2-component adhesives on low-energy plastics such as PC, PMMA, PVC etc., good shear and peel strengths as well as good impact strength under dynamic loads. From the 3M Scotch-Weld series, even acrylic adhesives have been developed in the meantime, which provide good results on difficult to bond plastics with low surface energy without any surface preparation or primer. The highly elastic silicone rubber (RTV/HE) is a quite flowable silicone rubber with very high elasticity and at the same time low viscosity. It is particularly suitable for the production of filigree elastic forms with pronounced undercuts. Fields of application are relief casting moulds or moulds for strongly structured decorative panels or wall elements. Silicones - chemically more precisely known as poly(organo)siloxanes or siloxane - are synthetic polymers whose silicon atoms are connected via oxygen atoms (Si-O-Si). They occupy an intermediate position between organic and inorganic compounds. At present well over 10,000 different types of silicone are known. Silicone rubbers are differentiated according to the temperature required for cross-linking. The term sponge rubber is mainly used to describe open-cell and elastic foams that have a closed, leak-proof outer skin. These are expanded by adding blowing gases made of natural rubber, chloroprene, acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber or similar synthetic rubbers and are classified as porous rubbers. During vulcanisation, the blowing agent inflates the compound and gives the thermoplastic elastomer permanent elasticity. Sponge rubber is generally considered to have poor to hardly any adhesion. Depending on the second material, only individual, special adhesives are available that enable usable bonding. Adhesions of sponge rubber to certain plastics such as polyolefins (polyethylene, polypropylene) or rubber are particularly critical. Further information. Double-sided acrylate foam adhesive tapes for a wide range of applications are available on the market. They're made of closed-cell acrylate adhesive for demanding material combinations or critical plastics with low surface energy such as PE or PP. These are able to absorb forces well and are therefore permanently resistant to tensile, shear, splitting and peeling forces. They're suitable, for example, for car mirror bonding or for the bonding of mouldings and decorative trim.The cold-crosslinking HTV silicone rubbers are plastically deformable materials which are used, for example, as cable sheathing, for electrical insulation or for sealing and damping purposes. The flowable, red silicone rubber (RTB/HB) has a high heat resistance and low elasticity. They are used as mould construction material for casting moulds for low-melting metals where high hardness is required. With this information, the adhesive and surface treatment can be selected based on technical data sheets, experience and the literature. If it is important, adhesive samples should be made and tested before the adhesives are used. In mechanical testing, the bonded joint is loaded until it breaks. The type of fracture provides information about the quality of the bond and indicates where defects occurred during bonding. An adhesion fracture is when the adhesive detaches from the joined part. A cohesion fracture is a fracture in the adhesive itself and a fracture in the part to be joined describes a fracture outside the adhesive surface in the part to be joined.
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