Glue to bond silver & glass

[sparrow]

I know, I know, all you jewellery people, you just laugh...but I went through two years of silversmithing evening classes with a tutor who banned glue (and jumprings!!) to connect stuff together.......so I've never had to glue silver & glass. Well, now I do........help?

And also, while I'm at it, is anybody using that clever stretchy wire webbing stuff to thread things, because I'm wondering whether I need to glue the ends before attaching a flat crimp clasp................

Full of questions, as always - thanks guys!!

[julieHB]

Hi Sabine,
Difficult, difficult! I have tried the most expensive and the cheapest, and none is 100% (that is after sever quality testing  ).  I have concluded that the Araldite crystal clear formulation for ceramic, glass, metal, jewellery is as good as any two-component glue, and by far the cheapest.  You get it at any hardware store, I think.

A big point when using two-component glue is that you must not be too tight with the amount you mix up even if you don't need much(much easier when the tubes cost £1.5 rather than &20..).  Also, make sure you mix the components for the time specified on the packet....

A lot of people swear by the one-component E6000, but I am not totally convinced about that one still.  It needs a lot longer to cure.  There is a thread on here somewhere about glue.

Needless to say, the areas to be glued need to be clean and it also helps to rub them a bit.

good luck!!

[Zeldazog]

Blimey, don't get me started on glueing silver bails onto glass......

STILL no absolute success with E6000, despite following all careful advice (And being told in one thread that if I did this and that it absolutely wouldn't fail - well it DID!)

There's a thread on US Warm Glass site, well there's lots, and someone there uses "household silicone" - not tried that!

As Julie said, doesn't seem to be much difference between the top and the cheapest - I know some swear by the £23 a go scotch 3M stuff (sold on Warm Glass UK) but I am not prepared to fork out that much money - SO many people swear by E6000, but me and Tan CANNOT get it to work for us (ask Tan about BLuetak.....) - I *nearly* got it to work - I had one bail that I had to tug really hard before it came off, but that's not good enough for me - perhaps if I leave it to cure for six months it might work....

I've some good sucess with a 2 part glue that mixes in the nozzle (the name escapes me right now, I will update post when I remember!) - that is VERY good, trouble is, it sets in about 5 to 10 minutes, and you only get 2 nozzles - so once you've use them up, you're stuffed!  And I contacted the manufacturer, to see if they sold spare nozzles, they kindly sent me a few, but no offer to sell me a truck load

Oh, and I recently found a couple of pendants taht I had glued a few months ago  (late last summer) that were stuck on really really well at the time, and passed the tug test, and they came off without too much trying recently - now that does worry me.....

[sparrow]

Hmmmm...thanks Julie & Dawn - it's so much easier if there is a 'proper' answer, isn't it. Guess I'll have to run my own trials...  Thanks for all your help!

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

E6000 dont fricking go near that product of the devil, nothing works, its evil stuff, designed to hold just enough until its sold then it will FALL APART and laugh while ti does it, oh yes it willl

DO NOT TRUST IT, IT IS THE SPAWN OF SATANS ANAL OFFERINGS, IT WILL LULL YOU AND LURE YOU AND WILL NEVER NEVER HOLD ANYTHING EVER

[sparrow]

Errrrrrrrrrr...................E6000, spawn of evil. Got it! 

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

PHew, I'm just relieved that I manged to get my point across in a calm yet subtle manner

[sparrow]

LOL

[Carol]

Soooooo......are you saying that we ought not try E6000 then Tan? 

[Vicki]

E6000 dont fricking go near that product of the devil, nothing works, its evil stuff, designed to hold just enough until its sold then it will FALL APART and laugh while ti does it, oh yes it willl

DO NOT TRUST IT, IT IS THE SPAWN OF SATANS ANAL OFFERINGS, IT WILL LULL YOU AND LURE YOU AND WILL NEVER NEVER HOLD ANYTHING EVER

so your not keen then Tan

[fionaess]

I have a friend who does a ton of dichroic jewellery, I was talking to him on Saturday and he was telling me he uses a glue that costs around £30 a pot, takes around 5 days to cure, but really works... Do you want me to find out which one he uses, I wasn't interested because of the cost.

[julieHB]

Definetely, Fiona, that would be great!! 

[fionaess]

Ok, will do, he's on holiday atm, but I'll give him a ring when he gets back... just hope I remember.. If I don't could you remind me please Julie.

[julieHB]

Will do, and Thanks 

[Funky Cow]

Buy a glass drill, make 'oles in 'em, firepolish 'em and wire 'em up! NOTHING has passed the Cathryn wrench test. So I've given up on glue