Araldite tips for your project

Here are some essential tips to help you on your Araldite project way.

• All Araldite® glues are safe when handled according to Huntsman's guidelines.
• It's always best to work in a well-ventilated area but there's no danger from fumes.
• Make sure you have all the items you require to do the job.
• Always read the warning label before you start.
• Keep glues out of reach of young children and pets.

Do you have any of your own tips you'd like to share and we'll put them on the website!

For any other information, do visit our Go-Araldite website for more information, facts and figures: http://www.go-araldite.com/

Araldite testimonials for a Friday

We want to share with you some more of the Araldite feedback you've been sending.

Myra, Merseyside says: "There is glue for every project in our house."

We think Natalie from Solihull has had a glue issue in the past perhaps? "Araldite is easy to use and it is very difficult to stick your fingers together! Also, very precise."

And Kim from Ipswich says: "It mends with out showing." (We agree that Crystal is a great choice for invisible bonds).

So tell us why do you love Araldite?

Drop us a line...

Seriously, no jokes, we'd love to hear from you:

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Questions, questions, questions (we at Araldite love questions)

Have you got a question about Araldite, make & mend projects, tips or suggestions, we may have the answer: http://www.go-araldite.com/en/how-to/faq

Araldite Tips

Tips on how to make the best of your project with Araldite: http://www.go-araldite.com/en/how-to/tips

It's true, we love people telling us why they love Araldite

Gwyneth from Derby says: “I have been using it/them for over 40 years and with never a failure”

Richard from Staffs gave us a good old historical reminder, telling us: “it reminds me of my Dad mending things when I was little”

Marcus from Middlewich says: “It`s a name to be trusted why buy anything else, it’s easy to use and I am always confident in the results

Aftercare when using Araldite

Aftercare pointers for Araldite: http://www.go-araldite.com/en/how-to/aftercare

Would you use Araldite for...?

Which of these would Araldite be used for:

• A plane
• A vehicle
• A decorative plate
• A child’s toy

(Answer is all of these)

Have you ever thought of using Araldite to mend these things?

Steel: Bath tubs and outside downpipes

Instant: Making and mending model aircraft and metal handles on suitcases

Fusion: Fixing toy trains and broken teacup saucers

Repair: Mending bike pedals and outside piping

Crystal: Making and mending jewellery and repairing glass

Rapid: Fixing photo frames and broken hoovers

Standard: Used for bonding and repairing chairs

Araldite in the family

Salim in London tells us their thoughts on Araldite: "Since I was a child ( I am 62 now) Araldite has always been synonymous with strength (for the glue) and quality (for the design). It is an office stalagmite!"

Jane from Glasgow – “It has been reliably used in my family now for 4 generations... from tiny things to larger things, it doesn't care, it just fixes it. Wonderful.”

Araldite® in your daily life

Recognized as the strongest and most durable adhesive in the consumer market, Araldite® adhesives can be used on a wide variety of repairs and can bond virtually anything to anything – including glass, ceramic, leather, wood, metal, masonry, most hard plastics, rubber and many more materials.

Long lasting and solvent free, Araldite® creates super strength, water resistant bonds

that can be painted or sanded. Available in tubes and easy-to-use syringe packs, the Araldite® DIY adhesive range is wide enough to meet all a consumer’s needs for repair and assembly. Araldite® adhesives are available in Europe from many retail outlets including DIY stores, hardware, hypermarkets, grocery outlets, trade stores and many others.

In 2012, Huntsman announces a reformulation and new environmentally-friendly packaging for the entire Araldite DIY range.

A new website was launched www.go-Araldite.com which features industry credentials of the brand as depicted in key case studies.

Araldite approved epoxy

Huntsman also offers a comprehensive range of Germanischer Lloyd (GL) approved Araldite® epoxy resin systems which meet stringent processing and performance requirements for wind blades manufacturing. 

Huntsman has adapted its resin systems for a range of processes, including wet lay-up, infusion and pre-impregnation (prepregs). 

Araldite in Automotive

The Araldite® range has a history as one of the most widely used adhesives in the automotive sector because of its structural stability and flexibility and its resilience to vibration. It was used on the car that Donald Campbell drove to break the 1960 world land speed record in the ‘Bluebird 3’.

Every car manufacturer is looking for new materials that will enable them to make lighter weight cars with improved safety features at a lower cost. In the last year Huntsman has developed resin systems suitable for out-of-autoclave processes such as high pressure resin transfer molding (HP-RTM) or compression moulding, meeting growing demand for shorter production cycles mainly for automotive mass production.

The successor to the Murciélago, the Aventador LP700-4, was unveiled in 2011 and is now gaining widespread recognition as an extremely important model, being the first flagship from Automobili Lamborghini SpA to feature a production carbon fibre chassis, made using an Araldite® resin system for Resin Transfer Molding (RTM).

While traditional composites used in the luxury sports car industry have typically utilised aerospace-derived prepreg materials for autoclave cure, out-of-autoclave processes are now believed to provide unparalleled efficiencies in terms of cost and production rate, while leaving performance and quality unaffected.  Among these processes, Lamborghini is focusing on liquid resin processes (VaRTM and RTM), oven-cure prepregs, preforming technologies (braiding, non-crimp fabrics and thermoforming), and advanced compression molding

Araldite and its applications

*In the 1960s, Donald Campbell set the world land speed record in his car, the ‘Bluebird’, whose fuselage was bonded together at Duxford, using Araldite® adhesives.

*Araldite® adhesive was chosen by the designers of the luxury motor cruiser, Neptys, who were looking for a glue to stand the stress of impact and vibrations at high speeds on the water

*Araldite® has played a major part in the development of new manufacturing methods for producing new economic types of clad pipes, the compound liner clad steel (CLC) pipe.

*The construction by Acciona of the world’s longest ever single beam composite bridge saw Araldite® being used in this mass structure over Manzaneres River in Madrid. 

*Recorders were attached to sea lions on the Galapagos Islands with Araldite® to study their dives down to 350 – 500 metres.

The History of Araldite

Araldite® is a registered trademark of Huntsman Advanced Materials referring to their range of engineering and structural epoxy (EP), methyl methacrylate-based (MMA), polyurethane (PU) and Silyl terminated polymers adhesives. The name was first used in 1946 for a two-part epoxy adhesive. Aralidte® is a brand which is used for industrial and consumer applications.

History

The first production of epoxy resins was carried out by De Trey Frères SA of Switzerland.

Ciba AG first demonstrated a product under the trade name Araldite which went on to become one of the 3 major epoxy resin producers worldwide.

Araldite® adhesive products were originally launched in Switzerland in 1946 with the aim for a DIY market to emerge. It was in the 1950s when first batches of the epoxy resin were produced at Duxford, near Cambridge.

Araldite® adhesives targeted India and Chinese DIY consumers in 2005.

Do you need any more proof that Araldite never dates: http://www.vintage-adverts.com/1960-Araldite-Glue-Advert

Did you know...

DIY- Did you know it was only in the 1950s was when the ‘do it yourself’ phrase was coined, for people who wanted to do all the home improvement jobs themselves...and what an industry it has grown into!

Did you know...

Araldite^® glue was chosen by the designers of a luxury motor cruiser looking for a glue to stand the stress of impact and vibrations at high speeds on the water.

Araldite^® glue has played a major part in the development of new manufacturing methods for compound liner clad steel pipes.

Araldite^® glue was used in the construction of the world’s longest ever single beam composite bridge over the Manzaneres River in Madrid.

Araldite^® glue was used to attach recorders to sea lions on the Galapagos islands, to study repeated their dives down to 350 – 500 metres.