Other than the acrylic adhesives mentioned so far everything else has been epoxy based, with that said it should be noted that there are laminating epoxies that can be thickened with cab, milled fibers or micro balloons to mention a couple, or there are gluing epoxies that are specifically formulated for bonding things together. Last there are structural epoxy based adhesives available with outstanding performance numbers. Finding the right material for the job is key in many applications but probably not so much with our models, I say that because most all these adhesives if properly mixed, and properly applied to a well prepared surface are far stronger then the substrate we are bonding together in the first place.

One of the 3M structural bonding adhesives we use on a daily basis must be re-certified periodically do to shelf life issues, to perform the re-certification we cut two each pieces of .100" thick 2024 T3 aluminum 5.00" long X 2.00" wide, we then place the adhesive along the 5.00" axis only .500" wide. so what I am saying is that the bonded area is only 1/2" X 5" long per the testing specification, after the specified cure we clamp the test coupon in our calibrated testing fixture and pull to a minimum of 3000 lbs. sustained in the witness of our inspection personnel as the qualifier for certification purposes. Now here is the kicker, our load cell bottoms out at 5500 lbs. and with the load cell bottomed out with these samples still in the fixture I have never witnessed one fail and we have been doing this for many years. So you see this would also work great in our models but as with most adhesives available, way overkill. I would say this, if you are going to laminate then use epoxy laminating resin, if you are going to bond something together then use epoxy gluing resin, or acrylic gluing adhesive, or epoxy structural adhesive.

Bob