Good glue

[Mark Bolam]

Can anyone recommend a glue that actually sticks things together?

Modern superglue is about as strong as spit.

Nothing specific, I'm always needing to stick stuff together.

Please limit this to stuff you have personal experience with, and stuff that is readily available.

Thanks.

[Peasgood]

Different glue for different tasks.

Copydex is very good at sticking some things together but completely rubbish for Airfix modelling.

[Woodworks]

No one glue is great for everything but West Epoxy is the most versatile IMO. Snag is it's expensive and needs lots of additives for specific jobs.

 

PVA is hard to beat for wood but need close fitting joint.

 

Cascamite for wood if you need gap filling properties.

 

PU like Gorilla will stick wood and other porous materials. Also can handle wood that is not entirely dry which PVA and Epoxy don't like

 

Aralidite or similar epoxy for little jobs if ultimate strength is not required. Gap filling for wood and sticks metals and other non flexible materials.

 

Super glue for some plastics but never found it great for anything apart for sticky you skin together (think it was designed for this) but it is handy for quick jobs.

[Darrin Turnbull]

I Don't repair so much nowadays , but ARALDITE was good.

 

 

 

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[muttley9050]

Tite bond 2 fir wood. 2 part epoxy for some other stuff and gorilla expanding glue for everything else.

[Tom D]

The twin syringe Gorilla glue epoxy is my go-to glue. Its well strong and sets fairly quick for an epoxy...

[Lazurus]

Just stuck a drain surround to a concrete rim with the expanding up stuff, little spray of water to ensure bonding, also used it to stick a paving slab onto a step when the mortar failed, 3 years in all weather and foot traffic and still stuck.

 

It's just using what's right for the job. For a lot of my repairs I use the 151 epoxy, £1 a syringe, goes off in under 10 minutes and never had a failure.

[Robert_S]

Tiger seal. it holds my world together, but when things get really bad i turn to tek screws

[Haironyourchest]

Adhesives sure have come a long way from the auld pine resin mixed with bluebell bulb juice and wood ash....I read they have made a glue out of the tendrils that mussles use to attach themselves with, that's supposed to be the strongest known glue yet. They use it to glue heat resistant tiles onto the hulls of space shuttles apparently...there's such a wonderful range out there, all comes down to the right tool for the job....super glue can be combined with baking soda as a catalyst which causes it to cure instanatniously and also provides bulking aggrigate to enhance strength - tricky to apply it though, and watch out for the exothermic reaction - can start a fire!

[Ian Leach]

Gorilla wood glue and gorilla expanding glue, also mitres mate .