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Bonding/Sealing Aluminum

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:26 am
by Nick
Howdy Hatzers.

Does anyone here use Aeropoxy http://www.aircraftspruce.ca/catalog/wp ... 279adh.php to bond and seal aluminum? Seems like a good product.
If not, do you have other recommendations?

Also If anyone has a recommendation on how to prepare and prime the aluminum aileron skins, I'd sure like to hear it.

Thanks

Nick

Re: Bonding/Sealing Aluminum

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:16 am
by womenfly2
One needs to bond the aluminum skins? Rivets should be stronger without adhesive.

Any etching type primer will work. Automotive etching chromate primers work too.

Re: Bonding/Sealing Aluminum

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:01 pm
by Nick
Well that's very interesting to hear, and contrary to what I have heard before.
Full disclosure: I am completely new to aluminum, so I'm eager to learn these things.

Would you kindly expand on the remark that the rivets will be stronger without adhesive?

Nick