I learned long ago not to let those who might be a little fearful of flying in an experimental airplane see a tube of epoxy or a container of super glue in the toolbox - they suddenly find lots of excuses NOT to fly in your airplane...
Nevertheless, usually ave a little tube of each around for non-structural bits and things, and today, i found a great use for the super glue - in all my years of trying to attach fabrics and vinyls to metal, I've used all of the usual "aviation" adhesives - pliobond, contact cement, that tube of 3M brownish stuff that we used on rag-wings.....today I needed to glue the Naugahyde stick boots in Mikey to the mounting ring, and wow! The little tube of super glue did great!
I must admit that I usually have poor luck with super glue, but in this application (the vinyl side of the the Naugahyde adhering to the aluminum) it worked great - no mess, no added thickness, and when I tried to rip apart my test coupon, the Naugahyde actually came apart, leaving the vinyl attached as the fabric backing came off.
Good stuff!
Paul
Nevertheless, usually ave a little tube of each around for non-structural bits and things, and today, i found a great use for the super glue - in all my years of trying to attach fabrics and vinyls to metal, I've used all of the usual "aviation" adhesives - pliobond, contact cement, that tube of 3M brownish stuff that we used on rag-wings.....today I needed to glue the Naugahyde stick boots in Mikey to the mounting ring, and wow! The little tube of super glue did great!
I must admit that I usually have poor luck with super glue, but in this application (the vinyl side of the the Naugahyde adhering to the aluminum) it worked great - no mess, no added thickness, and when I tried to rip apart my test coupon, the Naugahyde actually came apart, leaving the vinyl attached as the fabric backing came off.
Good stuff!
Paul