i've had terrible luck with 2 part epoxies. i tried a half dozen brands over the years as a jeweler. they came in tooth paste tubes like jb weld and weird two chambered syringe things that were harder to get the same amount of. every time i used it it would either dry and only stick to one surface or never dry at all and peel off like rubber cement.
old jewelers called 2 part epoxy their "pearl hammer" because that's what you use to hold a pearl on a post. like i said it never worked for me, so after many years i just used super glue mixed with the dust from drilling out the pearl. i always redrilled the pearl (yup that big perfect pearl gets a hole drilled 1/2 through the back) and usually added a new thicker post. i started replacing the posts when QC kept ripping the thin factory posts off checking to see if the pearl was tight!
i'll also say i hate every other kind of glue or at least they hate me. i have super glued my hands together more than once! fingers together more than i'd like to say. maybe as a kid i should of ate some paste or not sniffed the markers.
all that said i need to use some kind of glue to hold metal to plastic. i'm talking about at a very small surface area as it is a 4" action figure hand. specifically it is a fn cat (mech?) robot hand with it's fingers removed. i've driven steel push pins in place where the 4 fingers would be. i plan on slipping some very thin plastic straw pieces over the cut to length pins. a steel claw will insert in the end of each straw as well. so it will need to bond to two kinds of plastic and 2 kinds of metal. all the pieces fit together and hold together ok. so the amount of space will be very small and not easy to get everything together fast.
any suggestions on a good pearl hammer? or why/how i'm doing it wrong?
or just stick with super glue? maybe find some kind of dust to put in it
smart arse remarks welcome too
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..we'll get to see who ate the paste that way.
