How to glue styrofoam to plastic (bait bucket)

[livemusic]

I have this Frabill sit-n-fish bucket that contains a minnow bucket within it. The lid has a bit of styrofoam on the top for a seat, but it has lifted up. Any idea what type of glue I could use to hold it down? I also have some gorilla tape called Gorilla Clear Repair. I used it to tape up a small hole in a canvas boat cover. Supposed to hold like crazy, "patch, fix, hold." I wonder if I could double that over and make it hold. Or, would Elmer's glue or something normal like that, lol, work? It's not worth buying more glue, was wondering if something I or my gf might have at our houses would work.

The black part is what I call styrofoam, but that might be 60s terminology, lol. It is affixed to the white, hard plastic of the bucket.

Whatever I use, I don't want to 'melt' the styrofoam/plastic. It seems I have seen some glues are incompatible with plastics.

 

[wisconsin heat]

edit: don't use crazy glue

[papajoe222]

The crazy glue will melt the styrofoam.  Try Gorilla Glue, the one that you add water to activate, but remember that it expands.

[WIGuide]

Contact cement would probably do the trick too.

[Kevin22]

Anything acetone or mek based will melt foam. Epoxy will work as long as it isnt extremely pourus.

[Fishes in trees]

I'd just use Elmers Glue or go to the hardware and buy whatever waterproof version of Elmers that they have.  Maybe that all purpose spray adhesive - just use a lot of it  -  maybe liquid nails or some other construction adhesive.    When you are gluing foam I think that the basic kitchen formula is applicable, i.e. if a little will do a little good, a lot will do a lot of good. . . . .

[WRB]

Use Pliobond contact cement.

Tom

 

[Jaw1]

Liquidnail, or just silicone will work without affecting the foam

[Kevin22]

Silicone wont set without being exposed to air.

[Backwoods bassin]

Consult your local redneck for some top of the line duct tape.  I'm guilty for using duct tape on a lot of stuff?

[yugrac]

silicon will glue anything to anything as long as its clean. kevin22"s point is taken, however it will still work, it just takes a little longer to dry. I work in the automotive field, we use silicon to glue everything. Foam is porous, and will allow the silicon to dry.

[WRB]

The seat pad that is peeling off isn't styrofoam or polystyrene, it appears to be a closed cell rubber foam with low tear strength. Lots of the above suggestions require the bonding surface to be clean, you need to remove the pad and clean the surfaces.

Silicone has very low peel strength, not a good choice. Contact cement is pliable with higher peel peel strength and forgiving to bonding skills. The repair could cost you more than the bucket is worth and the reason Pliobond contact cement was suggested.

Tom