Loctite Instant & Cyanoacrylate Adhesive Choosing Guideline

Types of Loctite Instant Adhesives

Henkel offers a diverse range of cyanoacrylate adhesives, also known as instant adhesives, that cater to both general and specific purposes. Our instant adhesives boast rapid fix times of as low as 5 seconds, can withstand temperatures ranging from -65ºF to 200ºF, and possess impressive sheer strengths of up to 3,760 PSI, making them ideal for challenging applications and environments. With various viscosities available, from liquid to gel, you can easily find the perfect instant adhesive using our Product Selector Guide. For detailed information on our cyanoacrylate adhesives and instant adhesive gels:

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Main Features of Loctite CA Instant Adhesive

• One-component, no-mix products that cure rapidly at room temperature without heat or light, make cyanoacrylates exceptionally easy to use.
• Excellent bond strength to the widest range of plastics, rubbers, and metals
• Widest selection of products, including specialty grades suitable for applications where impact resistance, flexibility, gap filling, low odor, or extremely fast curing is required.

How to choose among these CA Instant Loctite Adhesives?

First, you need to answer the biggest question: What type of material are you bonding?

There will be two main options:

Bonding Low Surface Energy Plastics

Some low surface energy plastics can be named as follow: PP, PE, Acetal, PTFE, etc.

In this case, you need to increase the surface energy first by using: a primer with premium CAs:

Loctite 770

For All Other Materials (Except Glass)

For bonding other surfaces including metal, wood, leather, textile, and some porous surfaces, in addition to requirements of bonding strength, there will be 7 other needs:

Premium Surface Insensitive CAs (Bond very well to most materials)

There will be 3 options:

Low odor/ Low bloom CAs (For aesthetic & odor sensitive applications)

Light Cure CAs – Rapid Cure (Provide extremely fast cure speeds)

Toughened/Impact Resistant CAs (For applications with vibration & shock)

Two-Part CA (For high-gap applications)

Non-Sag Gel

Loctite 3092

Rubber Bonding CA

Low Viscosity

Loctite 404 Quick Set

CA Accelerators (Speeds cure of exposed CAs)

Use accelerator with premium CAs

Loctite 7452