When i visited the one model railroader about 6 weeks ago or so, he told me the glue he used for his buildings and all. Its similar to superglue but made for railroading/modeling/hobby. It comes in regular, quick and fast set and you can buy an accelerator for it to dry quicker. There is also a product byy the same company i guess that is the remover side. Anyone familiar with the brand. Thanks. I have a model someone gave me that needs to be built.
Bakerboy - you don´t state which brand of glue it is.
Basically, you don´t need superglue to assemble styrene kits - a regular plastic cement will do.
I am nost sure what the name of it is. I cant get ahold of him of him to find it out so i was curios if someone here is familiar.
sounds like it might be “Zap” or one of the other brands of CA. (Zap just happens to be what the LHS carries… )
As mentioned, the brand doesn’t matter so much. If you’re gluing styrene to styrene (ie a plastic kit), you’ll do better with a styrene cement (Testor’s in the black bottle, or Tenax 7R, among others).
Styrene cement (like Testors) is almost always the right glue for plastic-on-plastic joints. It actually softens and “melts” the plastic so the pieces bond together. CA generally makes a firm joint, but the pieces aren’t bonded and can sometimes separate. A CA joint may be brittle, particularly if you use an accelerator. CA is great for metal-to-plastic, or metal-to-metal, because styrene glue won’t bond to metals at all.
I generally like to paint models before assembly, but be careful not to paint the surfaces where you’ll be gluing them together. The paint will interfere with the bonding process, and even that thin layer of paint can mess up the fit of the model.
People have mentioned CA glue. If your friend refered to it, the CA stands for cyanoacrylate glue. That is what super glue is. And it does come in several flavors such as quick setting, thick gel, slower setting, etc. There are several name brands.
I mention it just in case he called it “cyanoacrylate”