Best glue to use on float and plastic mount

[coupe1942]

The right tip of my float on my SC is lifting away from the rectangular plastic piece that secures the metal supports to the float itself. Probably from a tip over accident or it may have happened in storage or during a move.  I can use some tape to wrap it and hold the two pieces tightly together while it is being glued back, but I am wondering if Gorilla Glue is best or adequate glue to use for this fix? Anyone else have this happen in the past?

[hghost]

Gorilla glue is waterproof....and with it's expansion ability it would go up into the plastic where those wire supports are and secure it all

It would be the perfect fix. ( in my opinion of course ) Someone else may have a better solution as i have never used floats. ( yet )

[pasquale91]

Had one of those happen with my first float set.
I used hot glue to repair it.

[coupe1942]

I've used both options in the past for other projects. My only issue with Gorilla Glue is monitoring just how much is enough and how much it waaaay too much. It can foam up and present problems by doing that. I am not the best to gauge just how much is enough at times.

The hot gun trick failed me on my Bixler when the plastic hanger part/piece snapped off later on a wing support. It may be that I used a cheapie glue gun that didn't melt the hot glue as effectively as it need to be though. The plastic hangers held rubber bands in place along the bottom side of the wings and that area has a lot of stress applied to it over time.

Got to take my dog to the vet for shots, and spend a couple of hundred bucks on him, so plenty of time to decide later on. I have to dig out my better hot glue gun from where it is effectively hidden in my storage bins out in the garage. I sure did a good job in hiding it this time. Now if I can just remember which of the 30 or so bins house the darn thing.  :-)

Thanks for the info suggestions.

[pasquale91]

I did notice something about the glue gun that I bought.
It is a "High Melt" glue gun. If it gets to normal operating temp,
it will not only pump melted glue, it will also melt foam with said melted glue.

Just took a foster to get spayed this morning, I know how it is with annuals with two
other dogs too.

[coupe1942]

Well, I  had a chance to try out a repair today. I chose to use the Gorilla Glue, as it was handy and I didn't have to search through storage bins to locate it. Also, I didn't want to chance burning the foam with the hot glue gun method. I inserted a small wood wedge to raise up the front part of the plastic support piece and then wet the inside area prior to adding the Gorilla Glue. My previous use of this glue sometimes ended with a lot of extra glue crap as it expanded. I tried not to use too much this time around and I'll see how it turns out in a bit when I decide to remove the large rubberbands I used to hold it all in place after gluing the parts together. I'll find out more about how secure the fix actually was when I test the float out in the future though. Took just a few moments to do the repair and I had some large rubber bands that put quite a bit of continuous pressure on the float and the plastic part to allow them to be joined. Here's to hoping the repair works out well for me. Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

[coupe1942]

Hummmmm. First time ever, but epic fail with Gorilla Glue on joining the two parts. Not sure just why, but it has never taken 2 hours to have the glue harden in the past. When I removed the rubber bands, the parts were not secured together. Will have to find my better hot glue gun, I suppose. The glue feels like a paste or such and even though water was brushed on, the glue has not hardened together to join the parts securely. Maybe the glue was too old or perhaps too cold. Not sure in the least and I have never had problems with it before. Big surprise to me this time around. Oh, well, have to experiment with the hot glue gun idea next.

[hghost]

to cold ? How about this present temperature .



has gotten really cold here and we got about 8 inches of snow as well

winds have calmed down, they were gusting near 30 mph at one point today, bitter cold.