[TheForge] Re: shuttle - High temp glue

[Mike Spencer]

> I'd like to get some of the glue they use on the shuttle's tiles.

And some tiles, too.  Wouldn't they make a lovely gas forge? :-)

> The friction heat melts the glue holding the rubber on the rollers on
> my belt grinder. Anyone know of a high - temp rubber glue that will
> stand the heat?

Dunno what yr rollers look like so I dunno what's doable.

Contact cement?  3M makes a variety of contact-type cements,
presumably differing in subtle but important ways from garden-variety
hardware store stuff.

Google "thermosetting adhesives".  YMMV etc. etc.

How about sodium silicate, aka waterglass?  Tends to be brittle but
extremely heat resistant. (And, if you have an early copy of Edge of
the Anvil, waterglass is *not* the same as potassium cyanide.)

Oh, and BTW,

> Ooops, that was supposed to read Polymeritic action

"Polymeric" is probably the word you wanted.

    Adding Japan drier to the mix will help the slow polymeric
    action....

- Mike

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