Tag: adhesives
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Expansion, Contraction, And You – Part One
I’m not going to deal with how much you eat and what it does to your waistline, nor to whether your business is flourishing or failing. These forms of expansion and contraction form no part of the Little World. What does, however, is how various materials behave under various stimuli – heart, cold, damp, and adhesives.…
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Well, Boys, I’m Sticking To My Workbench
Yet again. Where the hell did that patch of superglue come from? I claim no record for the number of times that I have inadvertently adhered to the furniture. Not that I wouldn’t get it, but it’d be nothing to be proud of. It shows a triumph of sloppiness over organisation – but at least…
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Ungluing The Kit
Or ” Are You Stuck With it? “. A recent question on Phil Flory’s YouTube channel about dissolving old glue on a model kit – really old 1950’s Testor cement – was ably handled by the team of English modellers when they advised the questioner to put it away for another 50 years and wait…
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Apply White Glue…
And there is no racial overtone to that headline – the glue is white and that’s all. You can use it no matter what colour you are. And you can use it for damn near anything. I am still discovering modelling tasks to which it can be the perfect answer – even things that I…
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