Another Brand of Epoxy for Metal
If you haven’t been able to find the Plastic Steel epoxy I’ve mentioned for attaching standoffs to panels, there is another brand of apparently similar stuff called JB Weld. A reader of this site sent this link to me. It’s a discussion thread on making inexpensive illuminated pushbuttons, but if you scroll down a bit you’ll see photos of some interesting techniques. He uses flat-head screws instead of standoffs, which is a clever idea. (Personally I’ll stick with threaded standoffs because with screws you’d have to carefully set the height of all of the backing nuts.) I happened to be in a hardware store a couple of days ago that stocks JB Weld products; they appear to be pretty straightforward epoxies with different formulations for speed, materials, etc.
Posted: November 3rd, 2006 under Studio Nebula.