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Old 10-23-2008, 06:04 PM
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I'm trying to build an acrylic skimmer and the one thing I'm having trouble getting locally is weld-on of any type. Now I know that Weld-on is methylene chloride but I'm wondering if anybody knows any other cements/glues that have methylene chloride in them. (some other brand name?) Is it possible that I'm missing it simply because I'm looking only for "weld-on"?
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sometimes just called methylene chloride. Any acrylic shop will carry it
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I made an acrylic tank a while back and there's a few places that carry weld-on. industrial plastics and paints in rochmond is the place I went to, but there was one in vancouver... can't recall the name.
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I forgot that my profile still says "vancouver", I'm actually living in St. John's right now - not exactly a place with a lot of "acrylic shops", in fact I can't find one! Just wondering if it comes in different brand names...
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yep, but they don't appear to carry weld-on... do they carry some other product that is similar that you know of?
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dont take my word for it but i was at totem yesterday getting crazy glue. and beside it they had a LOC TIte Brand that would prob be excatlly what your looking for. it was in the glue silicon section.
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yeah, we don't have totem either..... I've looked at every loc-tite glue I could find and none of them have methylene chloride. any other ideas?
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how about this stuff?

http://msds.ihs.com/partinfo.aspx?partid=17597

I know it's a paint stripper but it does have methylene chloride. Do the other ingredients matter (the methanol and propane?)
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Do the other ingredients matter (the methanol and propane?)

Yes, they matter. HD, down here anyway, sells acrylic. The solvent is right beside it.
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