What adhesives work best with mineral oil builds?

TechGuy45

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So at my work we have a desktop inside a small tank made from what I'm pretty sure is plexiglass and is filled with mineral oil. We then have this inside of a larger fish tank to make it look like the fish are swimming around the PC. Its pretty sweet. However, long story short we had to take it out for repairs and later found a a leak. Nothing insane, but enough to where we were concerned. We believe that the seal on the smaller mineral oil tank was broken when we moved it to get the PC out. We beleive we have found the leak and are now addressing it. We contacted the person who put it together and he said he used Loctite to seal the plexiglass together. My question is that is there anything better than loctite that can be used on plexiglass with mineral oil. I think that the mineral oil was eating away at the loctite but I am not sure, i am pretty new to mineral oil builds.

TL : DR What adhesive works best with a plexiglass tank that involves mineral oil?
 
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Loctite what? That is just a brand name, and their original product is for keeping bolts from vibrating loose. These days they make all kinds of glues, epoxies, and compounds.

Are you certain it is Plexiglass? Also a name brand for acrylic sheets. Poly(methyl methacrylate)

You need to find an adhesive that can bond with acrylic, and I believe acrylic adhesives are a chemical weld, not a glue

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Loctite what? That is just a brand name, and their original product is for keeping bolts from vibrating loose. These days they make all kinds of glues, epoxies, and compounds.

Are you certain it is Plexiglass? Also a name brand for acrylic sheets. Poly(methyl methacrylate)

You need to find an adhesive that can bond with acrylic, and I believe acrylic adhesives are a chemical weld, not a glue
 
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