Hi - I've not been following the forum for a few years as I had a bout of someone-filled-the-garage-with-junk-from-the-house-and-now-I-can't-get-to-my-bandsaw, followed by a stretch of trying to build a built-in wardrobe, followed by the birth of our first child 16 or so months ago. (And I say 'trying' with the wardrobe not because I wasn't succeeding, but because I wasn't succeeding anywhere near fast enough...!)
Anyway. Said 18-month old child has a favourite mug - the one he used to learn to drink from a proper cup with a handle. Said mug is - or was - made of melamine. It got dropped on our tiled kitchen floor a few too many times cracked apart, so we bought a replacement of the same mug... and today that also took a tumble (although it was my wife's fault this time!) and lost the handle.
It's getting a bit expensive replacing mugs and my partner is upset that she broke something he likes, so I'd like to be able to fix it... but searching the Internet to find out what glue to use for melamine is pretty much impossible thanks to Americans' habit of treating "melamine" and "melamine-faced chipboard" as interchangeable terms. I know it's not strictly woodworking, but I also know you lot were a font of useful advice last time I was here so I thought I should try, and who knows - maybe it's useful to someone building a thing as well. Anyone know what glue to use to glue back together a melamine mug that's actually made of actual melamine and will need melamine bits gluing to melamine?
The nearest answer I found on the web was someone asking about a plate who got recommended "RooGlue Clear", but the product page from the manufacturer states that it's good for gluing melamine to a porous surface, so I suspect it's not actually intended for this purpose and may be no good. I saw someone suggesting that acetone might work, but I'm wary that acetone is one of the few organic solvents most people have heard of so it may just have been a guess! I'd try MEK, since I have two mugs to play with and can arguably experiment on one of them, but my little bottle of MEK appears to have evaporated out through the screwcap in the aforementioned multi-year interlude and I don't want to buy another if I don't know I'll use it before the same thing happens again!
Anyway. Said 18-month old child has a favourite mug - the one he used to learn to drink from a proper cup with a handle. Said mug is - or was - made of melamine. It got dropped on our tiled kitchen floor a few too many times cracked apart, so we bought a replacement of the same mug... and today that also took a tumble (although it was my wife's fault this time!) and lost the handle.
It's getting a bit expensive replacing mugs and my partner is upset that she broke something he likes, so I'd like to be able to fix it... but searching the Internet to find out what glue to use for melamine is pretty much impossible thanks to Americans' habit of treating "melamine" and "melamine-faced chipboard" as interchangeable terms. I know it's not strictly woodworking, but I also know you lot were a font of useful advice last time I was here so I thought I should try, and who knows - maybe it's useful to someone building a thing as well. Anyone know what glue to use to glue back together a melamine mug that's actually made of actual melamine and will need melamine bits gluing to melamine?
The nearest answer I found on the web was someone asking about a plate who got recommended "RooGlue Clear", but the product page from the manufacturer states that it's good for gluing melamine to a porous surface, so I suspect it's not actually intended for this purpose and may be no good. I saw someone suggesting that acetone might work, but I'm wary that acetone is one of the few organic solvents most people have heard of so it may just have been a guess! I'd try MEK, since I have two mugs to play with and can arguably experiment on one of them, but my little bottle of MEK appears to have evaporated out through the screwcap in the aforementioned multi-year interlude and I don't want to buy another if I don't know I'll use it before the same thing happens again!