The original hot-glue sticks were pure EVA in rod form - they offer high temperature glue sticks these days..
Care to bake it and spread EVA like frosting?
Then what?
They have to be "mounted on something".
They are already covered front and back with whatever goop they cover the front of solar yard lights with. The only thing not covered is the little tabs.
I kind of figured on doing the frosting thing to hold them on to something.
Problem is I don't know what to frost them onto!
Hot glue does not stick so well to some slick smooth surfaces, and I always had good luck with a few holes drilled and filled, and some more added to the rear with overlap. Sort of like a rivet made of hot glue?
Do you (or anyone else) see any issues with using plexi to stick them onto?I have used plexi for a slew of other things, but nothing quite like this, and I'd rather not learn a known issue the hard way.
A couple pieces of metal blocked up at the desired angle, plexi layed over the corner, careful application of heat with the <$10 w/coupon HF dual-temp heat gun, and it would be a good solution for me, IF plexi is good for the purpose!
I may have used surplus scrap Lexan too, because i used some "plexi" that didn't behave quite like it usually does. I expect the local scrap store would call anything even remotely similar to plexi, plexi.
After seeing that wiki pic of shooting some Lexan into an AL block at 23,000FPS, kind of wondered if that would have caused the behavior discrepiencies!
To save everyone from googling it,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexanI know I should have got a pic 1st, and didn't.
For some reason, my daily-use camera is not working even after charging it half a day, and the too-high resolution camera is in need of batteries (which I just discovered there are no AA alkalines and the rechargables are all too dead), leaving a $19 cell phone for the camera right now.
This is them, best I can do, back (left) and front, showing some reflection of the edge curvature of the 'goop', and how long the typical tab is...