How can I attach ABS pipe that's be spray painted? I'm making a waterwall out of ABS pipe. I cut the...
I'm making a waterwall out of ABS pipe.
I cut the pipe into lengths, between 1 foot and 1.5 foot. I primed them with a plastic spray primer, after I painted them with a metallic spray paint. Now I inevitability to stack them one on top of respectively other.
I though I could just bonding agent them with pipe cement. It worked BEAUTIFULLY on my audition piece which was unpainted. I tried it on my painted pipes, but in that was a chemical impulse, the dried paint smeared off, it adjectives my skin (just a wee little bit) and now it doesn't stick. I even tried sand off a strip on the two pipes, but the cement still didn't hold.
How can I stack these pipes?
Answers: Pipe cement will not work for this. Use an epoxy. Pipe primer and cement cause a chemical reaction next to the pipe to make the joint watertight. It is not actually a cement for what you are trying to do.
scrape the paint stale or get a current pipe