[Vwdiesel] cement

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

My first idea is to try 
Shoo-Glue. 
http://www.cvs.com/shop/product-detail/Shoe-Gear-Shoe-Goo-Clear?skuId=348063

My second idea is to 
use  http://www.advanced-rust-protection.com/por-15-porpatch.htm

But that is more complicated.  I do a lot of body work in the warmer 
months maintaining my fleet of old German cars, and in the past three 
years have relied on a heavy duty construction adhesive and seam 
filler called POR PATCH. It is thick and black....  you squeeze it 
from a tube, and the air starts it setting up.   Most people use it 
to patch rusted metal. It is expensive and it does the job.

I suggest it because it has stuck to EVERYTHING that it touched as I 
worked with it.....which was a problem because I didn't want it on 
other surfaces. My "flaw" may be your sweet spot.
I personally use it on rusted steel, to fill rust-pit holes, and to 
hold sheet aluminum patches to bridge large gaps in the body metal. 
You might WIRE the parts together with steel twist'ms and apply this 
stuff as it comes from the tube, and move it around with a small 
brush that you can sacrifice.

Once in place and set up, it lasts for years in all kinds of nasty 
environments, up to 500 degrees.

If I needed to do what you describe, I'd TRY it on the black plastic 
that makes up the filter housing, guessing that if the plastic parts 
were roughened up by a body file and very rough-grained carborundum 
wheel, the stuff would hold other fittings in place. You could even 
drill some small holes (1/8th or less?) in the plastic to take in the 
fluid adhesive, and it would act like a plastic screw when it hardened.

It takes hours to set up at room temperature, and I'd limit the 
coating to no more than an eighth inch thick in my preliminary 
experiments. Let it finish setting up overnight if possible.

It won't ever come off your hands if you let it set up there. Wear 
gloves and use esters, ketones, and aromatic solvents to clean it off 
tools, brushes, and 
skin. 
http://www.advanced-rust-protection.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=P&Product_Code=SV&Category_Code=Solvent

You may have to order it online, or special order it from a POR 15 dealer.

My first idea my be the solution, not expensive, easy to find, try 
and move on to something else.

Doyt Echelberger
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At 01:07 AM 12/7/2013, you wrote:
>Has anybody on the list had any success gluing or cementing the plastic
>that comprises our filter box on mk1s or 2s?  I'd like to find a way 
>to combine
>either some pvc or abs fittings and pipe w the airbox. I could use silicone I
>suppose and some screws and so on. But It would be so much cleaner to
>use the appropriate glue or cement.
>Peter