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I had a chance to use the glue this evening. I am trying to get a demo ready for a small local home show, so I brought it home to work on. Glued up the first edge. Seamed to skim over a little quick, but hey it is warm here.
Went inside, took a shower, checked email, went back to check the adhesive and it still isn’t fully cured. Doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies, if you know what I mean.
Maybe it is just me,
Chris
If it’s humid, it should set in about 45 minutes as a guess. You will always be able to press your thumbnail in the first bit. That part never cures. If you hit some bedrock below it, you should be fine. That’s a side benefit to bleed out.
Tom
Norm W. wrote
Also a question for Karl from BTP, are most of the repairs you do a result of fabricators that are no longer in business?
Norm, that would be hard for me to say, often times we never know who the Fab was.
Tom,
Did you reeaaally say IF IT IS HUMID. This is S. Georgia man. It is 11:45 here right now. Humidity is 74%, as per TWC.
I do feel better about digging my thumbnail in now that you mentioned that.
Chris
From what I understand, Corian Glue dries from the inside out. Sometimes the outside never really dries.
Is it my imagination or does Corian glue also seem to give off more heat as it cures? May just be me, but I picked up some purge to see if it was cured at it felt warmer than I had expected.
Chris
Corian adhesive does give off quite a bit of heat, I’m sure alot of you remember the old days of the hand kits that you used to mix with a vibrating sander. We use to check the mixture by how hot the tube was getting. You’ll also notice that the adhesive turns a pretty shade of green as it starts to cure, don’t worry, thats the UV stabilizer activating, it will go back to the appropriate color when it dries.
Andy,
You are correct, sometimes there will be a thin skin of soft adhesive that doesn’t dry fully the core of it doe dry nicely though.
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