Can anyone tell me what kind of glue you use to glue wood and plastic together? I am stick building a farmhouse and a barn. The windows and the doors on the farm house are made of plastic and naturally the house is made of wood. I dont think I can use Elmers Wood Glue or can I?
For something like that, I’d use some clear 5 minute epoxy. It’s a bit messy to mix, but you can apply it with a toothpick and it’s quite strong. Sets up in 5 minutes, so there’s not a lot of work time though.
Epoxy, super glue, Duco cement, some craft glues are made for multiple types of materials.
Dave H.
CA (cyanoacrylate, also known as super-glue) works well for almost anything. It bonds very rapidly, so there isn’t much working time, but you don’t need to clamp anything for half a day, either.
The problem with super glue is that it tends to chemically fog clear and chrome finished parts. It’ll bond good, but it isn’t for everything. Epoxy will bond clear and chrome parts, as well as many different types of materials, without damaging them.
Super Glue sometimes soaks into unpainted wood and loses its bonding power. You might experiment first and use a primer if needed for the bare wood surface. Make sure the primer is thoroughly dry.
Doc
Walthers Goo also works well, bonds great and gives you a couple of minutes to adjust.
Randy Johnson
If you use CA, make sure you use the thick stuff, like Slow Jet or Zap a Gap.
Nick
I like Wellwood Contact Cement to join dissimiliar materials. It holds better than Walthers Goo IMHO. It even holds the sliippery Delrin plastic on railcar trucks sideframe. It is available at most hardware stores.
White glue works well, as will wood glue. Just use it sparingly.
Why “naturally”? Styrene works great for all sorts of structures, and in the smaller scales actually looks more like finished wood than real wood (the grain’s too big on real wood in anything smaller than O).
There is a product called R/C56 that the RC modelers use to glue plastic canopies to the wood fuselages of the planes. I’ve used this in other modeling projects and it works very well and simply. It will not cloud clear parts as CA does and theres no mixing as with epoxy. It looks like a rather thin white glue, but it tacks up in just a few minutes and holds really well. After all consider the environment of a canopy on an RC plane,