What’s on the Choosing an Adhesive poster
A 7-row table: Adhesive · For · Not for.
Common adhesives and their real limits.
- PVA wood glue — Wood to wood — Gaps, outdoors, plastics
- Polyurethane — Wood, gaps, damp — Anything needing to be clean
- Epoxy — Metal, ceramic, structural — Flexible joints
- Cyanoacrylate — Small, precise, fast — Load-bearing, gaps
- Contact adhesive — Laminates, large areas — Repositioning
- Silicone — Sealing, flexible joints — Structural strength
- Hot melt — Temporary, craft — Heat, load
Clamping pressure and a clean, close-fitting joint matter more than which glue you choose.
Questions about the Choosing an Adhesive poster
- What’s on the Choosing an Adhesive poster?
- A 7-row table: Adhesive · For · Not for. Common adhesives and their real limits. PVA wood glue — Wood to wood — Gaps, outdoors, plastics; Polyurethane — Wood, gaps, damp — Anything needing to be clean; Epoxy — Metal, ceramic, structural — Flexible joints; Cyanoacrylate — Small, precise, fast — Load-bearing, gaps; Contact adhesive — Laminates, large areas — Repositioning; Silicone — Sealing, flexible joints — Structural strength; Hot melt — Temporary, craft — Heat, load. Clamping pressure and a clean, close-fitting joint matter more than which glue you choose.
- Who is the Choosing an Adhesive poster for?
- Choosing an Adhesive belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning repair can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Choosing an Adhesive poster?
- Match the glue to both surfaces and to the gap. No adhesive does everything. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Choosing an Adhesive belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Choosing an Adhesive?
- Soldering, Bleeding Radiators and Wiring a Plug sit alongside Choosing an Adhesive in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.SolderingBleeding RadiatorsWiring a Plug
- Is the Choosing an Adhesive poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Choosing an Adhesive downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Choosing an Adhesive poster print at?
- Choosing an Adhesive is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Choosing an Adhesive loses nothing.Printing guide
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