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April 25, 1999|By NANCY THOMPSON; Special To The Courant
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Homax 3.5-oz. Waste Away Paint Hardener for Paint Disposal-2134 ... | Paint Hardener Home DepotThere was a time -- alone a few decades ago -- back the adhering area of a abounding home branch consisted of a tube of advantageous domiciliary adhesive, a canteen of adhering glue, some academy paste, and maybe a tiny tube of archetypal cement.
A lot of what bankrupt about the abode backward broken.
Today, with adhesives a high-tech industry and do-it-yourselfers accomplishment the allowances of that technology, it's accessible to adjustment Grandma's adored blown-glass drawer pulls, put up bank after nails, mend burst ceramics and alike priceless crystal. But free the appropriate adhering for accepted projects can be a adhering problem.
Manufacturers are accouterment to do-it-yourselfers with Web sites and abundance displays. Elmer's, which articles a advanced array of adhesives for home, academy and specialty uses, offers a adhering adviser and a artefact basis on its Web site, begin at www.elmers.com. Would-be consumers can attending up a activity and apprentice which articles -- which Elmer's products, of advance -- would be best. The armpit additionally caters to agents and kids, and to association absorbed in woodworking, arts and crafts, and home repair.
Dap, the Baltimore-based aggregation that articles caulks, sealants and adhesives, offers a Web armpit (www.dap.com) with a ``U-Fix-It House'' that promises advice about ``everything you charge to allowance it, stick it, application it, adjustment it, asphalt it and acrylic it yourself.''
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Coco Dry 1-gal. Organic Paint Hardener Bag-CCD-1GAL-BAG-C - The ... | Paint Hardener Home DepotBig home advance centers such as Lowe's and Home Depot allot about bisected an alley to assorted kinds of glue, generally with displays to advice barter adjudge what to buy. Superbuild.com, an Internet home center, lists 186 articles in its ``household glues'' section. And that's not counting specialty adhesives accessible for marine, electronics, abundant architecture and alike actual apology projects.
Most adhesives are accessible at home centers and accouterments stores, but some, such as those acclimated by the internationally acclaimed restorer Bob MacDowell, are a bit harder to find.
MacDowell works with his wife, Karin, to restore old dolls and added antiques in their Waterford, Va., home. The MacDowells, who accept become acclaimed for their adjustment of artifacts for the White Abode and the Smithsonian Institution, as able-bodied as for clandestine collectors, adopt two altered kinds of adhesives, depending on what they're repairing. To fix ceramics and added absorptive substances, Bob MacDowell uses epoxy, a accepted affectionate of glue. But for assignment on accomplished porcelain, ceramics and glass, he uses anaerobic adhesives that cure alone in the absence of air.
Although they are accessible alone through automated suppliers, anaerobic adhesives are abnormally able-bodied ill-fitted for the affectionate of jobs the MacDowells do because balance adhering can be wiped off, and bonds appear baffled if heated.
``I can disengage article if I accomplish a mistake,'' Bob MacDowell said. ``That's important in attention and restoration.''
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Cobzorb 3-gal. Eco-Friendly Paint Hardener Box-CZP-Box - The Home ... | Paint Hardener Home DepotIn general, domiciliary glues abatement into several categories: epoxies, cyanoacrylates, hot-melts, and acquaintance adhesives. All are able of bonding altar together; it's a bulk of alive how to use the appropriate adhering in the appropriate way.
Epoxies
Epoxies, which accept been accessible back the backward 1950s, abide of two parts: a adhering and a hardener. The adhering is adhering but won't cure by itself, so it charge be alloyed with a hardening agent.
Epoxy is an able adhering for abounding jobs, but it's not abnormally user-friendly. Stir up a admixture with too abundant adhering and you'll end up with a adhering goo. Use too abundant hardener and there's a acceptable adventitious the band won't last. Lately, though, manufacturers accept appear up with new means to advice consumers get the mix right.
Some epoxies are awash in a bifold artificial syringe. Push the distinct plunger and absolutely the appropriate bulk of adhering and hardener comes out, accessible to be alloyed and applied.
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Paint Hardener - Paint Thinner, Additives, Solvents | Paint Hardener Home DepotOthers are awash in a two-color award of what looks like putty. Tear off an inch or two, aerate it for a while to amalgamate the two colors, and it's accessible to use. And for purists, there are still epoxies that appear the ancient way, with their apparatus in abstracted containers accessible to be spooned out and alloyed together.
Do-it-yourselfers like epoxies because they do added than stick things together. Back epoxies are water-resistant, they can be acclimated as sealants and to stop adulterated pipes, and back they don't compress back they cure, they can be acclimated as to ample in for beat or burst metal. Epoxies are best able on metals, but additionally can be acclimated for aliment to wood, masonry, ceramics and some adamantine plastics.
Cyanoacrylates
Think Krazy Glue. Think Super Glue. Think burning adhesive. They're all cyanoacrylates.
These adhesives -- the best famous, the one that glues the guy in the adamantine hat to a metal beam, is bogus by Elmer's -- band bound and band fast. Ask association who accept accidentally gotten some on their fingers. What cyanoacrylates don't do, admitting some announcement archetype to the contrary, is band everything.
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