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Re: Hot Glue Legal to Glue PWM cables ?

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
The hot glue I am talking about will run like a warm milk shake letting gravity take it where it wants. The tools I have used act like a 'runny nose' and drip constantly while hot.
Now your extreme aversion to the stuff becomes understandable.

I'm also now pretty sure that what you're referring to isn't what anyone else in FRC wants to use. While the usual craft-style hot glue guns do drip at times, what falls from the nozzle has a consistency closer to warm peanut butter than to warm milk shake. Think beeswax, not honey.

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While I was writing this, I remembered that there is a product you can buy at Office Depot that is intended for tacking posters to a wall. That should do the trick, be easily removable, and will not contaminate electronics. It looks a lot like Playdough.
Plasti-Tak and similar materials are neither sticky enough nor solid enough to have the desired effect on a PWM connector. They adhere well to paper, and the typical amount used gives a large area of contact to spread out the force, but if you try to use them to do something like affix a PWM connector to a Spike it'll stretch and/or tear and/or simply roll off the part.