Hello everyone!
I'm not in the USA, and thus, have no access to weldon. I can't find alternatives that i can order. I can't get online stores to ship weldon outside of the US. It seems that there is a strong restriction on this in europe (i'm near the USA in terms of location, but in europe, as i live in a french island :) ).
Anyway, no luck getting weldon 4 or 16 or whatever here. I looked up, and discovered that weldon was mostly dichloromethane, and that people used it to weld acrylic for tanks.
Alas, no luck here : can't find it, and i found that it's almost forbidden to non pro users in europe.
When i was in the watercooling hobby, we used chloroform to weld acrylic, but it's impossible to source now, for it's also forbidden for home users.
My last hope was to actually MAKE chloroform, which can be done from acetone and bleach (youtube.com/watch?v=j-PrAczOGb0 ), but i'm not sure that it's worth the trouble, for the method is doable but not so simple. I'd rather not have to invest in too much glassware, and have yet another set of bulky tools at home.
So, last bet is acetone. Since it's a solvent for acrylic, can it be used to durably weld acrylic? did anyone do that? I know that people use it to weld acrylic to some point, but does it hold water well?
Did someone use this method?
I guess that if everyone uses weldon , chloroform or dichloromethane(methylene chloride) over the vatsly more available acetone, there must be a reason, no?
so what do you think about using acetone to weld acrylic?
If pure acetone won't cut it, what about a slurry made of acrylic bits dissolved in acetone?
I'm not in the USA, and thus, have no access to weldon. I can't find alternatives that i can order. I can't get online stores to ship weldon outside of the US. It seems that there is a strong restriction on this in europe (i'm near the USA in terms of location, but in europe, as i live in a french island :) ).
Anyway, no luck getting weldon 4 or 16 or whatever here. I looked up, and discovered that weldon was mostly dichloromethane, and that people used it to weld acrylic for tanks.
Alas, no luck here : can't find it, and i found that it's almost forbidden to non pro users in europe.
When i was in the watercooling hobby, we used chloroform to weld acrylic, but it's impossible to source now, for it's also forbidden for home users.
My last hope was to actually MAKE chloroform, which can be done from acetone and bleach (youtube.com/watch?v=j-PrAczOGb0 ), but i'm not sure that it's worth the trouble, for the method is doable but not so simple. I'd rather not have to invest in too much glassware, and have yet another set of bulky tools at home.
So, last bet is acetone. Since it's a solvent for acrylic, can it be used to durably weld acrylic? did anyone do that? I know that people use it to weld acrylic to some point, but does it hold water well?
Did someone use this method?
I guess that if everyone uses weldon , chloroform or dichloromethane(methylene chloride) over the vatsly more available acetone, there must be a reason, no?
so what do you think about using acetone to weld acrylic?
If pure acetone won't cut it, what about a slurry made of acrylic bits dissolved in acetone?
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