Gorilla-Glue for your Power Strip screws

[CWO4GUNNER]

Have you ever gotten tired of trying to hang your power strips under your tank stand so as not to get electrocuted when water spills? Have you ever successfully managed to matched up the little screws with the hole slots in the power strip only to have it pop off each time you pull a plug?
Well for those of you who haven't tried this but looking for a new solution that works great and is easy as slicing bread this is it.

Just find a right angle corner under your stand, wipe it clean of dust and then wipe the right and back of your power strip free of dust and then apply some Gorilla-Glue in swirls on the back and right side, then take an ice-cream-stick and apply some water (a few drops) to the glue in the same swirl motion on the same spots. Now just press the power-strip to the outside corner and clamp snugly (don't crush the power-strip). The glue with water activator will expand like foam filling every low and high spot a large unbroken gluing surface area (there's that word again) and form a bond so strong that you'll almost have to brake the power strip to get it off. No more trying to drill or screw spaced holes and no more power-strips sliding off their mounts. Best of all in dries and is ready in minutes rather then hours or days.

 

[Sunshinessmile]

note: do not get gorilla glue on your fingers or you will regret it while your soaking them in acetone

Great idea tho!!! ill have to do that

 

[RodInCALIFORNIA]

VERY good idea !

 

[CWO4GUNNER]

The key is gluing two side into a corner which makes the bond super strong and keep the power strip out of the way of getting snagged by pulling cords. No measuring no marking off, but the C-clamp is a must to hold it in place for at least 20 minutes and then you can start using it. I did 2 Power-strips using just 1 clamp in 40 minutes only because my other C-clamps are too large.

 

[Rbishop]

geesch...way over engineered

 

[dixienut]

hey thanks for the ideas,..CWO4GUNNER, your begining to be my favorite on here ,..lol my idea maker left for vacation years ago,.. now i have a for rent sign in my brain,..lol

 

[ksane]

You're a flippin' genuis. I'm so sick of trying to line those screws up right. I wonder if liquid nail would work, too. Then I wouldn't even have to run to the store.

 

[CWO4GUNNER]

You're a flippin' genuis. I'm so sick of trying to line those screws up right. I wonder if liquid nail would work, too. Then I wouldn't even have to run to the store.

liquid nails is great in some applications usually where the item glued is not exposed to stresses but otherwise if repeatedly torqued on liquid nails will eventually crack. The problem with Gorilla glue is that when mixed water it expands 10 times its size so it had to be clamped or it will separate the work. But because Gorilla glue expands it forms a complete seal in all the high and low spots providing very strong surface tension and because it dries into a pliable dense foam and insulates itself from drying out, so it can absorb repeated torque and shock without cracking and getting brittle. Add that and the fact that it dries and is ready in 20 minutes makes it some great glue for just about anything. I even glued my light fixtures to the top of my canopy last January and they are as solid up there as they were the day I glued them having been exposed to moisture and slamming. Th only difference here because they are over water as an extra precaution I did use 2 screws on the channel slots, however without the Gorilla glue the fixtures would have slid off there rails by now but the glue keeps them solidly stuck to the canopy top having been bumped slammed yanked on they have remained solidly in place without so much as a slip.

 

[excuzzzeme]

Which one of the Gorilla Glues are you using? They have several types including a super glue version.

 

[SMinNC]

Nice idea.

When I got tired of one falling off one time. I screwed a 1"(?) screw half way in right above the top. The way it had to go to fall off. Now it couldn't move the the way it needed to, to fall off. Didn't fall off no moe.