Gluing acrylic face to face

[Daniel Muller]

has anyone glued acrylic face to face? if so what type of adhesive did you use. customer wants a trophy made with 3 pieces of acrylic and the middle piece being blue and the outside clear. any help would be much appreciated.

[Gary Hair]

Daniel,
It would be pretty difficult to get acrylic of any size to adhere without bubbles, but, if you started with a piece much larger than you really need and flood it with acrylic adhesive and then cut out what you need, it might work.

Gary

[Martin Boekers]

You might check with a UV cure adhesive for acrylic, You would need a UV light source to cure it, but at least you could remove the bubbles before it sets.

Both surface would have to be flat as any imperfections may show up.


Marty

[Daniel Muller]

thanks for the help

[Lee DeRaud]

For what it's worth...

Awhile back I was doing some experiments to see how thick a piece of acrylic my laser would handle. I taped together various thicknesses and then cut the sandwich...
turns out a 25W laser will handle 0.4"+, just barely.

What is interesting for the purposes of this discussion is that the cutting process effectively welded the layers together along the cut edge. Worth a try anyway.

[Scott Balboa]

That's a tough one...

The one and only acrylic glue I use for everything is one of those "water-consistency" solvents that companies like JDS and Acrylic Idea Factory sell. You apply it with a syringe and it sets up quickly and holds amazingly well. Usually, if you're careful, you can weld acrylic together with little or no bubbles. I personally haven't tried the UV-stuff, so maybe that IS better?

[Daniel Muller]

Lee,
Interesting that is welded the pieces together. i wonder if that would be enough to hold plus gluing to a base. Thanks for the input and the testing of this.
Dan

[Frank Corker]

Daniel, here is a good starting point to view, one anyone should know about with acrylic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT6Ow_cBTps