When reading the spec sheets on adhesives and caulk the manufactures sometime refer to ‘set’ time and ‘cure’ time. What is the difference between the two?
Jarrell
Set time is the time is takes to “harden” enough to touch, move a little or sometimes paint. Cure is the time it takes to complete the chemical process and become “fully hard”. The exact meaning varies with the chemistry. For instance, the cement in the Hoover dam is not yet fully cured.
Thanks for the answer, Art. So, if you’re using a certain product to secure HO scale flex track, and the ‘set’ time is 24 hours, does that mean you can remove the weights and/or pins used to secure the track in 24 hours, or do you need to wait the week for ‘cure’ time?
My uneducated guess would be something like 48 to 72 hours.
Jarrell
You can remove the weights after 24 hours. It will stand light use.
I don’t know about adhesives but I do know that if your first train set gets you, then you are very unlikely to be cured.[^]
Lol… yep, that happened to me!
what type of adhesive are you using? I know a guy who used liquid nails and ran his train over it in 2 hrs without any movement. Then again he used the small tubes of it and thinned it out so it took shorter time to dry. I myself used Woodoand Scenics foam tack glue, I use their foam roadbed and Atlas code 83 track. I can run trains about 1hr to 1hr 3o minutes cause I dont use a lot fo glue and till this day no track has popped up ur moved yet.