Gluing Plastic LEGO onto MDF!!!.

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I think you may have it there Dick!

Try...ACETONE...just brush it on the lego and test on fitting to the plate.

I bet it melts just enough to weld...not that I have tried it but it is what I use for welding plastic binding to wooden guitars and it works perfectly.

Jim
 
I'll give it a go, later.
20 years ago you couldn't cross the floor without embedding Lego in your foot, but nowadays it's all in the loft waiting for grandchildren to stop swallowing it!
 
For a quick fix on ACETONE use the wife's nail polish remover.

It is nearly as good but has water and all sorts of softening oil rubbish in it so for the proper job you have to go to a chemist or some DIY shops...

Love sniffing that stuff...probably killing me but still love it...like NITRO...boy I love the smell of NITRO in the morning! :D

Jim
 
Lego if Wikipedia is correct is moulded from an ABS plastic.

It's not the worst to bond, but not the easiest either. Normal epoxies, super glues and polyurethanes will kind of bond it, but not very strongly. Whatever you go for some practical testing is a good idea.

Here are a few options:

Cyanoacrylates (superglues or CAs) need a specific plastics primer for a decent bond. They are not very waterproof. One of the carded glue + primer consumer plastic bonding kits sold by the likes of Henkel/Loctite might be a good bet.

More cost effective if quantities are needed would be one of their bottled industrial CAs with the plastic primer which amounts to the same thing, but you'd have to go to an industrial distributor who would also advise.

They have gel CAs in tubes that are also good with the primer on plastics, and might be a better bet if you are sticking to a porous surface.

There are plastics specific epoxy plastics bonders i think too, with a solvent blended into them to give a bond. Devcon i seem to remember do one but i don't know how good it is.

Araldite have a number of polyuerthanes that reportedly do the job too - products like 2028, 2041 and 2042. Again from industrial suppliers.

A final option as above is a solvent cement that melts the stuff. I don't know anything about acetone, but i think there are purpose made MEK (methyl ethyl ketone - not a nice solvent) based cements for it. A porous surface might cause problems with these too. (or not)

Pressure sensitive films or contact adhesives are also used, but i don't know how good the bonds may be.

Pardon the length, but i've been trawling adhesives for a consulting client recently...

ian
 
Plumbing solvent-weld waste glue works on ABS if that is what it is (basically MEK with some plastic pre-dissolved in it for gap filling, I think, from the smell and viscosity).
 

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