What adhesive for melamine to wood?

[Rich Engelhardt]

Hello,
I'm going to be mounting my Rockler #1 router table top to the router table I'm making.
The top has melamine on both top and bottom.
I'm mounting it on a piece of 3/4" birch plywood.

What adhesive should I use?
Epoxy?
What type of screws should I use also?

The core of the top is MDF.

[guy knight]

titebond makes a glue for melamine works good

[Greg Hines, MD]

At the very least, you should scuff up the Melamine in the areas where you will be gluing it. I used Gorilla Glue to attach some support cleats to the underside of my Melamine Router Table Top, and then added some 3/4" screws as well. They have kept the tabletop flat and sturdy.

Doc

[Peter Quinn]

http://www.rooglue.com/. Made for your purpose.

[Scott Loven]

Why glue it at all? Just run some screws through the MDF into the top and you are done.I would use course thread pocket hole screws.

Scott

[Ray Schafer]

... and to add to what Scott said ... if you ever want to remove it, you can just remove the screws.

Titebond makes a melamine glue, though.

[Curt Harms]

http://www.rooglue.com/. Made for your purpose.

I've used Roo clear like titebond (wood to wood) when extended open time is required as well as for gluing non-like materials e.g. aluminum T track in a plywood fence. It's sold as water resistant-not water proof-and I haven't experimented with soaking joints. One part, no mixing, slow setting. Water cleanup when wet, DNA cleanup once dry. Seems like pretty handy stuff. The biggest problem is finding it; Woodcraft used to sell it but once Titebond came out with its melamine glue woodcraft stopped carrying Roo Glue.

HTH

Curt