Viscosity adhesives and

Plain slideways are preferred in the majority of applications. Only a thin film of lubricant is present, so its properties - especially its viscosity, adhesion and extreme-pressure characteristics - are of vital importance. If lubrication breaks down intermittently, a condition is created known as stick-slip , which affects surface finish, causes vibration and chatter and makes close limits difficult to hold. Special adhesive additives are incorporated into the lubricant to provide good bonding of the oil film to the sliding surfaces, which helps to overcome the problems of table and slideway lubrication. On long traverses, oil may be fed through grooves in the underside of the slideway. 

Killick, B. R., Dispensing High Viscosity Adhesives and Sealants, in Adhesives in Manufacturing, G. L. Schneberger, ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1983. 

Robotized dispensing of a high-quality bead of two-component structural adhesives (epoxy, polyurethane, acrylic) is possible with servo-powered equipment. Positive displacement pumps control the mix ratio and flow of low to high viscosity adhesives and sealants. 

Rapeseed oil had rather limited industrial application until the development of steam power when it was found that rapeseed oil would cling to water and steam washed metal surfaces better than any other lubricant. This was due to its composition, providing the desired viscosity, adhesiveness, and solubility in mineral oil when processed for lubricants. For this reason rapeseed oil became an essential component of marine engine lubricants in naval and merchant ships. 

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For very-low-viscosity adhesives and for some activators or primers a gravity-fed system is often used. 

A second type of uv curing chemistry is used, employing cationic curing as opposed to free-radical polymerization. This technology uses vinyl ethers and epoxy resins for the oligomers, reactive resins, and monomers. The initiators form Lewis acids upon absorption of the uv energy and the acid causes cationic polymerization. Although this chemistry has improved adhesion and flexibility and offers lower viscosity compared to the typical acrylate system, the cationic chemistry is very sensitive to humidity conditions and amine contamination. Both chemistries are used commercially. 

Orifice. Orifice viscometers, also called efflux or cup viscometers, are commonly used to measure and control flow properties in the manufacture, processing, and appHcation of inks, paints, adhesives, and lubricating oils. Their design answered the need for simple, easy-to-operate viscometers in areas where precision and accuracy are not particularly important. In these situations knowledge of a tme viscosity is uimecessary, and the efflux time of a fixed volume of Hquid is a sufficient indication of the fluidity of the material. Examples of orifice viscometers include the Ford, Zahn, and Shell cups used for paints and inks and the Saybolt Universal and Furol instmments used for oils (Table 5). 

A number of instmments are based on the extmsion principle, including sHt flow and normal capidary flow (Table 6). These instmments are useful when large numbers of quahty control or other melt viscosity test measurements are needed for batches of a single material or similar materials. When melt viscosities of a wide range of materials must be measured, rotational viscometers are preferable. Extmsion rheometers have been appHed to other materials with some success with adhesives and coatings (10,161). 

Water-borne adhesives are preferred because of restrictions on the use of solvents. Low viscosity prepolymers are emulsified in water, followed by chain extension with water-soluble glycols or diamines. As cross-linker PMDI can be used, which has a shelf life of 5 to 6 h in water. Water-borne polyurethane coatings are used for vacuum forming of PVC sheeting to ABS shells in automotive interior door panels, for the lamination of ABS/PVC film to treated polypropylene foam for use in automotive instmment panels, as metal primers for steering wheels, in flexible packaging lamination, as shoe sole adhesive, and as tie coats for polyurethane-coated fabrics. PMDI is also used as a binder for reconstituted wood products and as a foundry core binder. 

Dicyandiamide fluidifies various adhesives and glues. In the presence of dicyandiamide, the initial viscosity of the adhesive formulations is lowered and maintained at a lower range for longer periods of time, thus preventing premature gelling and extending the useful life of the adhesive (see Adhesives). 

In the limit of high viscosity, immobile liquid bridges formed from materials such as asphalt or pitch fail by tearing apart the weakest bond. Then adhesion and/or cohesion forces are Lilly exploited, and binding ability is much larger. 

The homopolymer finds a variety of uses, as an adhesive component, as a base for chewing gum, in caulking compounds, as a tackifier for greases, in tank linings, as a motor oil additive to provide suitable viscosity characteristics and to improve the environmental stress-cracking resistance of polyethylene. It has been incorporated in quantities of up to 30% in high-density polyethylene to improve the impact strength of heavy duty sacks. 

Another major area of use is in the field of adhesives. The main attractions of the material are the absence of a need for mastication, easy solvation of the polymer, which is supplied in a crumb form, the production of low-viscosity solutions and high joint strength. In conjunction with aromatic resins they are used for contact adhesives whilst with aliphatic resin additives they are used for permanently tacky pressure-sensitive adhesives. In addition to being applied from solution they may be applied as a hot melt. 

The viscosity of most adhesives increases with time as they set by cross-linking, cooling from the melt or loss of solvent. The cross-linking of a phenolic-polyvinyl formal adhesive and of cold-setting epoxies was found by de Bruyne [41] to be represented adequately by an exponential relationship ... 

For rosins and rosin esters, the produets having high aeid numbers are the most susceptible to oxidation and have inferior viscosity stability and colour stability in adhesive formulations. Thus, when stability properties are essential in adhesives, rosin esters rather than high aeid number rosins are used. However, the high acid number resins are polar and display better adhesion to polar elastomers and polymeric surfaces. 

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