UV light activated glue

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    I came across an add on U-Tube for an adhesive often used by a dentists, one of whom thought of expanding its use on many more applications.  It bonds a vast list of materials including wood, metal, and glass by basically, welding the materials together.  It remains in liquid form until exposed to a small UV light tool for four seconds.  This adhesive dries clear and once hardened, it can be filed or sanded to shape.  The video has a demonstration of its strength in the video where a broken wire cable was glued and able to support the weight of a full grown man.  It goes under the brand name of Bondic.  A web site address of getbondic.io was listed on the AD.  It sounds like something with many applications in our hobby.  Has anyone here know of or ever used the product before?

[lmagna]

I have used it a number of times. In fact when you posted last year about trying to repair a broken glass if some kind that had a stem inside I gave you a link and recommended it as possibly the best repair method for that kind of repair.

 

Be that as it may, I have used it a number of times over the last couple of years for several repairs. It is the ONLY glue that I have been able to find that will repair the plastic frames around the lenses of my kids glasses. Two sets of glasses over the years and two repairs that never failed. Three long stem wine glasses for my wife. Did not continue using them all that long as you could still see where the break had occurred, (Missing shard of glass) but while she was still using them there were no issues. Didn't put them in the dishwasher so I have no idea how they would have fared under those conditions.  Fixed a coffee mug handle for a cup that is kind of like an old tennis shoe and I just like it. No problems in probably six months of almost daily use.

 

GREAT stuff and even though I thought it was kind of expensive for such a small tube when I bought it I still have not run out of it after all this time and various repairs.

[Bob Blarney]

I've used  UV cure glues  in the course of my job some years back.  There  are a few considerations.  

 

1.  The materials to be glued must be transparent to UV light, otherwise the cure will only be on the surface.  Some materials are transparent to visible light but not UV (e.g. eyeglasses), and vice versa.   That said, there are glues that can be cured by both UV light and heat, and so UV exposure  can be used to initially stabilize a joint and then a full cure can be achieved in an oven.

 

2.  An intense UV light source may be required, and precautions must be taken to prevent skin and eye exposure to the UV light.

 

3.  There were a few times when I couldn't get enough light on the parts, and so I waited until that bright UV source in the sky was out, and even used a magnifying glass a few times to finish the cure with heat (judiciously done).