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Got Glue? What if you Want to Stick Metal to Glass?
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Eventually you will need to glue some glass or stone to metal. Our wire wrap jewelry is made without the use of adhesives, but that is not all we do.We experimented with several brands and types but there is only one you need when the bond must not fail. We used to use E6000, and it is a great product. It was likely our technique that aided the occasional failure, but fail it did, on a tiny percentage of the items we sold. It is fast to use and it was how we attached earring posts to glass dots.
A few years ago we discovered Triolyse. It comes with an activator, the bigger bottle (14ml) and the adhesive (10ml). How much is that you ask? Well, it is two teaspoons. At around $20, it is expensive, but a little goes a long ways. Most stained glass and fused glass suppliers carry it. My last kit came from eBay and cost around $23 shipped. It is a UV cure adhesive that uses an Activator to cure. The instruction say to paint a thin coat of activator on one side, up to 4 hours in advance of applying the adhesive. Then you apply a dot of adhesive, one big enough to mash out to cover the entire area to be bonded. You hold together for 30 seconds and set it to cure for 24 hours. The cure is shortened to 30 minutes at 150F. We use tiny spring loaded clamps to hold the items together for many objects, speeding up the process. We listened to others and now apply the Activator to both sides. We use a lamp with a reflector to incubate the items being cured. When the bond absolutely, positively must not fail, get some of this stuff. Steve |
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