Hot melt glue...?

[ningcompoop]

I'm a big fan of hot melt glue around the house - sticky, gap-filling and always worth a good swear when you get it on your fingers. Just wondering if any forumites have had any success, or dramatic failures, using it around the boat - I'm not thinking securing the chain-plates here, more sticking down bits and bobs in the cabin. I'm usualy quite handy with the old epoxy, but it's a bit of a pain to use outside over winter.

John

 

[wully1]

I've used it to glue on camping carry mat to the hull when insulation my forecabin and also to stick on some loose ends of headlining.

 

[PCUK]

Handy to fix things in place when using Cascamite as the main glue.

 

[Poignard]

Handy to fix things in place when using Cascamite as the main glue.

Ditto when using epoxy

 

[Daydream believer]

handy for tacking wiring- with hot melt one can stick the full length of wiring in place. Quite often those sticky pads for fixing wires come off in damp conditions

 

[PlankWalker]

Its very good at being a bad glue.

It will fix something temporarily, and not do too much damage when you pull it apart.

Plank

 

[Laurie]

handy for tacking wiring- with hot melt one can stick the full length of wiring in place. Quite often those sticky pads for fixing wires come off in damp conditions

+1

 

[Sailingsaves]

I'm a big fan of hot melt glue around the house - sticky, gap-filling and always worth a good swear when you get it on your fingers. Just wondering if any forumites have had any success, or dramatic failures, using it around the boat - I'm not thinking securing the chain-plates here, more sticking down bits and bobs in the cabin. I'm usualy quite handy with the old epoxy, but it's a bit of a pain to use outside over winter.

John

Sucess and failures.
I buy the glue sticks that are high temperature ones.
Even those allow the glue to melt if sunlight hits the glue (e.g. via window on back of my car where I stuck an additional brake light).
Success where the glue does not heat up.

 

[prv]

Its very good at being a bad glue.

It will fix something temporarily, and not do too much damage when you pull it apart.

Agreed - sometimes that's just what you need.

I do tend to use it in conjunction with home-made electronics (including on board). Great strength is not needed just to hold a sliver of veroboard in place or tidy some small wires.

Pete

 

[simonfraser]

Stick the wires down round connectors, less likely to break.

 

[Highndry]

handy for tacking wiring- with hot melt one can stick the full length of wiring in place. Quite often those sticky pads for fixing wires come off in damp conditions

To use it on the reverse of GRP ( the rough side) do I need to treat the mat with something first?

 

[nigelmercier]

I must have lost my presence of mind when I used it to stick a PCB of 40+ LEDs into a light fitting, but I often use it inside cases to hold components or wires.

 

[Daydream believer]

To use it on the reverse of GRP ( the rough side) do I need to treat the mat with something first?

It must be dry & grease free. Howver, wiping leaves one liable to splinters of glass so i use an old toothbrush ( not the wife's electric one if she is nearby) with a small amount of meths although normally dry & clean is OK

 

[Highndry]

It must be dry & grease free. Howver, wiping leaves one liable to splinters of glass so i use an old toothbrush ( not the wife's electric one if she is nearby) with a small amount of meths although normally dry & clean is OK

Brilliant!

Tell me about the splinters of glass, I had to go into hospital last November to have a tiny sliver surgically removed from a finger. It had calcified.

 

[ningcompoop]

Cheers for all the responses - wiring was one area I thought it might prove very useful - I've found it good in the past for putting around joints and connectors before heat-shrinking them, in lieu of glue-lined heatshrink. I was also thinking about maybe trying it out to secure the bilge pump and pipe clips to the hull under the cabin floor - I think I'll try a few little tests first and see how I get on.

John

 

[William_H]

I found with any load on hot melt glue it will creep especially with a bit of warm weather or ny local warming. good luck olewill

 

[ningcompoop]

I would imagine that your "warm weather" may be warmer than our "warm weather."
Yeah, I just noticed it mention creep in another article I was browsing. I was inspired by something I read about it being used in vehicle manufacture, but it appears that not all hot melt adhesives are created equal. Probably won't use it on the winches now, either.

John

 

[William_H]

I would imagine that your "warm weather" may be warmer than our "warm weather."
Yeah, I just noticed it mention creep in another article I was browsing. I was inspired by something I read about it being used in vehicle manufacture, but it appears that not all hot melt adhesives are created equal. Probably won't use it on the winches now, either.

John

Weather forecast on TV this morning quoted a couple of small towns in central Oz as expected over 49 max. So yes no place for hot melt glue on long term holding. They showed some wag cooking eggs on the footpath in Burke yesterday. another guy had his rubber soled boots melt and stick to the pavement.
Fortunately mild where I am (for the time being) regards olewill

 

[cliff]

Clean, degrease and dry the substrate. Warm the area with a hair drier or hot air gun before applying the HMG. Select the highest temp HMG that your chosen gun will accommodate.

 

[clyst]

Handy for gluing thin battens to make templates for panels etc . Can easily be broken after use and battens used again .