E6000®

The next glue I decided to test is the E6000®.  This glue is highly recommended by people not happy with E600®.  The first instruction is have a clean, dry, dirt-free surface; so I wiped the finding and the acrylic jewel with rubbing alcohol.  For best results, it is recommended to roughen the surfaces.  I am going to use 320 grit very fine sandpaper for this purpose.

Done (before and after pictures, respectively).  The finding was simple to do because I did could do the entire disk.  The jewel, however, received scratches far beyond the area I was gluing.  I will have to find a way to sand a smaller area of the jewel.

The next instruction is to apply a thin coat of glue to each surface.  This proved to be a bit of a hassle due to the gel-like consistency of the product and a lack of a how-to on accomplishing this. Therefore, I simply used the glue tube's snout as a spreading device and wiped it clean afterwards.  As the product is clear, I felt photographing this would not really reveal much.  Lastly, one must wait 2 minutes before pressing the pieces together.

And done.  As you can see, there was almost no run out by squeezing the two pieces together.  The item is supposed to sit for 24-72 hours to cure, so sometime after that I will update this post with the results.

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