Choosing the best adhesive grade for a production application can be an exacting design task. This is especially true when joining dissimilar materials and when bonding certain engineering plastics. Adhesives can provide the optimum — indeed often the only — assembly method. However, it is all too often that the adhesive is not fully considered at the design stage. This can result in much time and trouble for engineers to get the prototypes into production.
Four main types of adhesives are discussed in this book:
• Cyanoacrylates,
• UV-curing acrylics,
• Two-part acrylics, and
• Epoxies.
There are of course many other types of adhesives suitable for bonding plastics and mention of some of these is given in Section 1.5.