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- From: thorn@phoenix.radonc.unc.edu (Jesse Thorn)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.scale
- Subject: Glue (was Re: Using aluminium foil...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.150656.16635@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:06:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.030548.1060@b30.ingr.com> jay@b30.ingr.com (James Reeves) writes:
- >
- >
- >God, how things have changed in 10 years! I think the norm is also to use
- >super glue to assemble the model and also for filler - is that right?
- >
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- I still use Testor's Liquid Cement after all these year for gluing
- plastic to plastic. This provides a MUCH BETTER bond as the plastic
- surfaces are actaullay melted together. If you do it right, this seam
- is as strong or stronger than the regular plastic.
-
- Stuporglue (as we refer to it in North Carolina) is an adhesive - it
- doesn't chemically bond the plastic together. It is like using Elmers
- White glue to join metal pieces (well, the stuporglue is a _bit_
- stonger) - pull on it hard enough and the pieces come apart at the
- seams. I have a friend that built this really nice B-17 using
- stuporglue. After completing the kit he dropped it and the belly seam
- split open. This probably wouldn't have happened had he used liquid
- cement. (Sorry to remind you of this, Kevin.) If you want to break a
- stuporglue bond try tapping it and applying a lateral force to the
- parts. Stuporglue bonds will shear more easily that they will pull apart.
-
- I will run a bead of stuporglue along the inside of main seams to
- provide strengthening of the seam. I also use stuporglue for minor
- seam filling and attaching metal and resin parts to plastic. I also
- use it to amuse family members when I accidentally glue various hobby
- tools to my hands. (Stuporglue was originally developed as a liquid
- field dressing during the VietNam War to bond skin to skin - to close
- large gaping wounds quickly. The main problem, as you probably geussed,
- was that medics often were glued to their patients!)
-
- --Jesse
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