Glue for aluminum barrel into plastic chamber

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teebone66
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Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:26 am

I'm hoping to insert and seal barrels in the following scenarios:
Aluminum into plastic pill bottle.
Aluminum or copper into soda or Gatorade bottle.
I don't have any jb weld lying around but I do have 5 minute epoxy, sellys kneadit, and super glue.
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Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:35 pm

Epoxy should do for all those jobs, just remember to clean off those surfaces and rough them up a bit before applying.

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Tue Jan 28, 2014 6:00 pm

also try mixing in some very fine metal shavings with the epoxy, it makes it stronger. When you epoxy on plastic, be careful, it reacts and the plastic sometimes warps/does weird stuff
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Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:49 am

Yeah 5 minute epoxy should work just fine, rough the metal and plastic surfaces with sandpaper to help the glue stick. Also im assuming you are making a mini combustion, they arnt high pressure so it should work just fine.
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