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chris_harper2
at Tue Oct 23 15:23:50 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by chris_harper2 ]
That is one of the downfalls to polyethylene and polypropylene -- they can't be solvent welded to themselves or any other plastic.
You could pick up a cheap plastic welder (thermal) but then you won't be able to weld two different plastics together as they will melt at different temperatures. I'm not even sure acrylic or polycarbonate can be thermal welded.
I believe some epoxy glues and caulks will stick to HDPE, but I'm not completely sure about that.
How thick is the material that you are joining? You could try rivets or screws, along with epoxy, but this is hard to do with thin material. In that case use polycarbonate instead of acrylic. You'd also have to lay it out in a way that the screws or rivets always went through the thickness of the polycarbonate. ----- Currently keeping a small collection of various Gonyosoma. Both G. janseni and G. oxycephala.
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