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- From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.scale
- Subject: Re: Need Suggestions For Glueing Styrene to Wood
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:40:08 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
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- In article <SDupa.59.0@xview.csuohio.edu>, SDupa@xview.csuohio.edu (Scott Hewis) writes:
- > I am currently working on a project that includes having to glue a styrene
- > bridge pier to a wooden support base (wood along the back and the bottom),
- > and am having some difficulty getting a good solid glue joint any and all
- > suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-
- I can tell you what I used to use for styrene to wood or paper on
- competition model rockets. Mix up a 50-50 mix of Ambroid and tube-type
- plastic cement. The joint is pretty secure, but will flex like chewing
- gum if twisted, so after two applications of the stuff I would run a small
- skin of five-minute epoxy on it to stiffen the joint. These joints are
- solid -- I once had a 3/16" styrene fin tear in half (rather than tearing
- off at the glue joint) when it clipped an overhead obstruction at launch.
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