gluing ABS
Hi, Glenn here. I used to manufacture a line of snow board cores
that had ABS adhered to the sidewalls before the industry went to
cap boards. ABS is tricky, we used to wipe the abs with Iso alcohol and then flame the abs prior to adhering it to our Birch outer lamination. This flaming was designed to flash off some of the materials in the abs and provide an (open pore) to the adhesive. We had built a flamer that used propane as fuel and had a head on the delivery end that put out a flame that was designed to cover the entire surface evenly. This flaming is called a corona treatment. We then immediatly spread around 5 to 10 mils of a two component epoxy glue
that was formulated for us by some wizard chemists out on the other side of the continent. CA. We then put the blocks ( 4 inches thick x 48" long) with a side cut into our clamp racks overnight to room temp cure. Never had a boarder rip off a sidewall that I know of.
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