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Styrene detail parts to body tube-- what glue??
What glue would you use to attach Evergreen styrene parts to a body tube?? Permenantly attach styrene to paper...
lateR! OL JR
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My favorite plastic-to-paper glue is Pacer formula 560 - which is the closest thing one can get to old Wilhold RC56 these days. I became familiar with it long ago as a means for attaching clear canopies to wood model airplane structures. It handles like (and cleans up like) white glues, but grabs and holds plastics well. The joints are someone flexible and therefore impact resistant (unlike what you'd get using a CA for this). Formula 560 is also great for use in assembling Estes E2X kits (Alpha III, Generic, SkyWriter, etc....) for all the paper-to-plastic and even plastic-to-plastic joints (but patience is required - it cures overnight).
If your LHS doesn't have it, Hobbylinc and others do: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/paa/paapt56.htm The similar-sounding stuff from the Zinger Propeller folks (ZRC=56) is much thicker and therefore harder to work with. But it does come in a bigger bottle.....
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Those sound rather like the properties of the UHU Bond-All glue that I've used (see: http://www.uhu.com/en/products/powe...ache=1&step=105 --it was the "Power Transparent" one, I believe). I used it in my MPC (and later Quest) Tomahawk kits (as well as in Quest's early Antari and Starhawk kits that used the MPC fin units) to cement the short "motor tube extension" into each model's plastic fin unit. It cured clear and had a slightly rubber-like consistency, which was an advantage for that application. It soaked into the "non-glassined" motor tube extensions in those kits and bonded the tubes to the plastic fin units quite well. Unlike the tube-type plastic model cement (recommended in those kits' instructions), which was brittle when cured and easily broke loose from the tubes when subjected to tension (when pulling spent motors out of the rockets, for example), the UHU Bond-All clung tenaciously to the parts to which it was applied.
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Oh ... if it's really thin styrene, like the wraps in an Apogee Saturn V, use "foam safe" CA ...
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bi...p?&I=LXKAV8&P=7
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For small detail parts, I use epoxy.
For wraps, I use Sig Core-Bond Contact Cement, which is designed for bonding balsa skins to R/C foam wing cores.
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Thanks everybody! I appreciate it!
OL JR
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