Gluing corian for Pen turning

bduemig · Post by **bduemig** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:10 pm

I have quite a bit of scrap Corian and have been attempting to glue it together to make patterns based on different colors. I haven't had too much luck; the joints often fail. I was on another site recently and someone said that since it is an acrylic, maybe PVC glue will weld it together like it welds the PVC pipe.

So I tried it. After two hours cure time, I took off the clamp and threw it on the ground and it stayed in tact. I cut it with my band saw and it stayed in tact. I hit it with a hammer on the joint and it remained in tact. I drilled through the seam as I would to make a pen blank and it remained in tact. All of these (short of the hammer) caused my other joints to fail.

I don't have any brass tubes at the moment so I haven't tried to turn it yet, but I will be getting some tubes within a week so that is the next test.

bduemig · Post by **bduemig** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:39 pm

I may have spoke too soon. I should have done one thing at a time. At the same time I used the PVC glue, I also started using wet sand paper mounted on a flat surface to to make the surfaces true. I also used the same procedure with thin and medium CA glue. I took the clamps off of them and they were just as strong as the PVC glue. So I took the PVC blank that I drilled and hit it with the hammer again and it finally failed. the seem was clean so it did not weld the surfaces together.

It was worth a try!

newportcycle · Post by **newportcycle** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:33 am

Corian should be glued using DuPonts adhesive for Corian, if I remember its a two part mix. If its too pricey, try some epoxy.