OT: sealing a glass vase.

My wife "discovered" a rather nice cut-glass flower vase that she had put in a safe place and forgot about. It turns out that it was saved away because it has a barely visible crack that allows water to, very gradually, seep through over time. Anyway, now she has noticed how attractive it is, she wants to use it again. Can anybody suggest a way of sealing the crack? She could, of course, use it for dried flowers and not use water, but...

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lemel_man
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Superglue will be drawn into the crack by capillary action and dries transparent. I don't know how permanent the seal will be, but might be worth trying.

Cliff Coggin.

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Cliff Coggin

I've used "Glass Bond" for similar problems. Seems to work well. AFAIK its a UV cured superglue.

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Roland Craven

Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure- honest- it's the D's B's. Google for a supplier.

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BEngo

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super glue will work but its not a good fix really. UV glue is a much better fix (put the glue on, let it soak in for a day, wipe excess and then cure). best bet is hextal (sp) but for the price of the little bottle you might as well get a new vase. my professor in my glass blowing class used to be a cold worker for a some big name glass blowers and he said if there was a small crack they would just use the UV glue. it hides the crack and should hold enough to not allow the crack to grow really, and they were doing this on $20,000-40,000 pieces so its legit

-matt

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