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Originally Posted by bogstandard  Just to start you off.
If you use a fair amount of Plastiweld.
Go to a builder merchants and buy Polypipe plastic pipe cleaner, used to clean guttering bits prior to bonding together.
Works out a lot less than Plastiweld. The last one I bought was just over £4 and had enough in it to fill about four Plastiweld bottles. It smells a bit different (not recommended) but does exactly the same job.
Drop a bit of the same coloured sprue from the kit you are making (in a separate jar) into a bit of the liquid (let it dissolve overnight) to make a glue or filler that matches the colour of the bits you are sticking together.
If you are into model boats or something where you need a very strong bond between almost any materials, like wood to f/glass or abs (styrene) you can't go far wrong with a german made glue called Stabilit Express. Fairly expensive, a mix of powder and a resin from a tube, but I have models made with this over 20 years old and the joints are rock solid, just make sure to do a chemi clean first. Be wary though, only about 10 minutes use time and almost full strength not much longer away.
John |
Is this stuff a clear liquid and on the side of the tin is it called 100% METHYL ETHEL KETONE.
If it is this same stuff, then it can be used for polystyrene as a glue on it's own. It is a bit stronger than TESTORS glue, that's the clear liquid stuff in the square glass bottle, as that is METHYL ISOBUTYL KETONE (M.I.K.), as you can see it is pretty close in the make-up.
Have a look at this link it's called CLEAR PRIMING FLUID, check out the prices and then compare these with the price of the glue you are now using, a few quick calculations will soon have you buying some of this stuff.
Plumbers Choice :: Supporting Plumbers since 1996
A good snort of this will clear the head real fast, don't tell any glue sniffers or it will be banned.
For those that want to see a heck of a lot of tips and hints about building plastic models, then go check out this
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modelt...ODEL%20TRUCKS/
You might have to join this lot, as there is quite a bit of info for everybody, I wrote this lot about 1992, some of the stuff is relevant today, but a bit is quite dated, as the computer has made huge leaps and bounds over the years and has taken over a lot of the stuff that was done manually.
It's well worth looking at some of these older types of things that were done 20/30 yrs ago.
If it had to be made back then, well you bloody well had to make it, no spare parts shopping back then, not like today where you just order some exotic thing that someone else has cast in resin and stick it together.
Scratchbuilt back then, MEANT SCRATCHBUILT , not highly modified ! !
Have a laugh while you have a read.