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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] slightly off topic: recommended glue for attacing one circuit board to another

2010-02-09 by Kjell M. Myksvoll

Hi,

It should just hold on. But the card that it is to be
attached to is standing vertically. But the smaller
card is rather light and small, so I don't think gravity
will come into play - even in the long run...

Never actually thought about adhesive foam. Shall take
a look at it.

Thanks!

br,
kmm


ti., 09.02.2010 kl. 21.46 +0100, skrev Stefan Trethan:
> Does it need to be very solid, or just hold on?
> 
> A gentle and removable nice looking option is adhesive coated foam.
> You can get tape and pads, different thicknesses, you want both sides
> sticky. This is widely used in all sorts of products. It should be
> thick enough so you can never compress both adhesive sides together,
> or they might rip components off (happened to most Samsung SGH 2400
> phones). That's a problem with any strong glue or spacer material, so
> the foam is good because it will flex or even rip before that happens.
> 
> Hot glue will work for this, I've used it a number of times to stick
> stuff right on top of populated circuit boards. But it'll look very
> much like a bodge no matter how neat you try to do it. If that don't
> matter it's a solution.
> 
> ST
> 
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kjell M. Myksvoll <kmyksvo@...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Probably a somewhat silly question, but...
> >
> > I need to attach a small populated circuit board on top of a
> > (much) larger, also populated, circuit board. Next it should
> > be easy to separate them, without destroying anything, later
> > on if that should be needed. That is I want to achieve the
> > same as one usually do with using spacers, but with using
> > glue.
> >
> > Is there any type of glue that can be used this? Can one use
> > "hot-gun" glue for this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > br,
> > kmm
> >
> >
> >
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