And I upgraded to a glue gun with mix nozzles and Loctite epoxy products + a minifridge
*you get screwed by the price of the different ratio plungers, given they are simple plastic parts... but sometimes the glue is a bit hard to squeeze out so you actually need a high quality strong plastic for the gun, particularly if you are impatient to fully warm the tubes up after cold storage
I don't think you can get similar performance from degassed mixes as you can with the mixing tube. I gave up on vaccuming the mixed glue because if its too viscous it seems worse after the vacuum.
Also, the acrylic epoxies are very nice, and smell nice (like wintergreen or something), and have glass beads in them to ensure proper joint thickness on compression. These have a much better adhesion to plastic also. They are weird though, it makes me think of working with a liquid spider web.
you can say my glue budget is dried out at this point with all the new acquisitions over this year
There is a table some where that tells you the viscosity in CPS vs the type of mixing/degas that works.. when it gets too thick you need to mix it under vacuum or in a mix nozzle for it to be any good. It seems the vacuum pot method is only good for stuff up to the viscosity of maple syrup.
Do you know about proper methods of laying the glue out? Like with a glue comb or such? I was thinking about 3d printing a glue comb but I am not sure if the effect just looks good or if there was any thought to how the comb was designed.
I glued a ton of stuff this year and honestly I can't stand the smell of normal epoxy anymore.. the acrylic is a nice change
And for polyethylene I am quite satisfied with primer + loctite prism glue, I want to say its strong enough that the only appeal for the plasma cleaning is for chemically resistant joints that you get with epoxy. If its simple mechanical chassis stuff, you can get by with the super glue, so long the joint areas are big enough, for hobby electronics. I might try a piece on teflon if I can find a flat bit. Good enough for a inductor coil bracket insulator I think.