Editor’s Note: This article is from the British magazine Practical Boat Owner so prices quoted are in pounds. All of the products tested are available in the U.S.
Alex Bell and a Practical Boat Owner test team get stuck into a thorough trial of nine products to assess which adhesives and sealants bond best to aluminium, steel, acrylic and glassfiber.
When it comes to sticking two bits of anything together, I tend to be a belt-and-braces person – or should that be a nut, bolt and glue person?
However, times have changed and so have adhesives. Increasingly, adhesives are powerful enough to do the job by themselves: we have adhesives to hold our car windscreens in place, modern aircraft use adhesives extensively for body parts and even the latest lifeboats rely entirely on adhesives to bond the rubbing strip to the hull. Read More
