Adhesives

Advantages:

• Bonds unlike materials
• Bonds form quickly (less need for clamping together)
• Ideal for gluing large sheets of materials
• sold in metal tubes - easy to apply

Disadvantages:

• Applied to both surfaces, need to allow time before being stuck together
• Relatively expensive
• Solvent-based - contains volatile organic compounds (VOC)

Advantages:

• Rapid Bonding of acrylics

Disadvantages:

• Can be difficult to apply
• Can be difficult to give a neat joint
• Relatively expensive
• Solvent-based - contains volatile organic compounds (VOC) 

Advantages:

• Strong bond (melts surface so pieces weld together)
• Water like consistancy (able to use a brush to apply)

Disadvantages:

• Relatively Expensive
• Solvent-based - contains volatile organic compounds (VOC)

Advantages:

• High strength bonds
• Chemical reaction hardens immediately
• Versatile (can be flexible, rigid, transparent, opaque, coloured, rapid or slow setting)
• Excellent heat and chemical resistance

Disadvantages:

• Reaches full strength after a few days
• Expensive
• Can be messy (requires manual mixing of resin and hardener)

Advantages:

• Strong Joint
• Relatively inexpensive

Disadvantages:

• Surfaces need to be securely clamped for a long time
• Generally not waterproof