I haven’t seen Walthers GOO in some time. I can’t find it on their website. My personal stock is used-up.
Can anyone advise if it is still available?
Buy a tube of 3M Super Weatherstrip adhesive. Get the yellow type and you will see it is superior (and cheaper) to Wathers Goo. I have been using this in place of Goo for years. You can find it at an autoparts store like AutoZone, PepBoys or Advanced Auto.
Jim
There’s also the GOOP line of adhesives. I’ve found these work real good. You can find these at most hardware and automotive stores.
You can buy the exact same product at many craft stores and it also goes under the name, “Goo.”
As you now know, it most certainly is still made. While there are many other “contact” cements out there these days, I still reach for the good old Goo for many things . I have never found anything that I like better for some jobs. When nothing else seems to work, I use Goo!
Can you post a tutorial on how to use it with out getting strings of it all over everything? That is one part of the hobby I have yet to learn. I squeeze some out and can not get the tube away without forming those long strings.
Speaking of Goo, what ever happened to Pliobond? I have been using Goo as a substitute for Pliobond to glue rail to trestles because I can’t find it ( Pliobond) here in Memphis.
Peter Smith, Memphis
I squeeze it out on a plastic lid (mine’s from Planter’s Peanuts, but others work as well) and use a flat toothpick to “cut” off the Goo so I can recap the tube. Then using flat toothpicks I scoop up a little and twirl it to wind up the strings. After applying a little I twirl the toothpick again so I don’t leave a string behind.
Fresh Goo from just opened tubes seems to have fewer problems.
Enjoy
Paul
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Contact cements get stringier as they age.
Rich
This is a joke, right? You’re asking “Is Goo gone?” GOO-GONE! Get it!!!
Walthers is still marketing this stuff and its pliability has some use although it is incredibly messy and the only way I know of to keep it from stringing all over the place is to keep the cap on - and that doesn’t make much sense really!!!
As for Pliobond, that trademark is owned by Goodyear Tire and Rubber and they market it under a variety of brandnames for different distributors. It is marketed not only in tubes but in cans; I have seen it in pint cans and some years ago a courier company I was working for had me make a special one gallon can delivery of twelve cans to an aerospace company. The dumbell at S&R didn’t have the slightest idea what it was used for except that the sheet metal department used up about twenty gallons of it a week. This was, of course, a wholesale delivery and the invoice was for a shade better than $250.00 if I recall right which made it about $21.00 a gallon. You know, I could lay down a thousand miles of Code 40 rail with one gallon of Pliobond!!!
Most hardware stores handle Pliobond although some only have it in pint cans; I have seen it in tubes at Ace Hardware.
Have to throw in my two cents worth here…
I’m thinking that R.T. might be right in regard to just keeping the cap on! I have a tube and have used it in a number of applications with little success.
Over all, I have been disappointed with it. Either it’s “deforming” plastic (even though the directions said to use Goo to cement the weight in place), it’s a mess to work with and / or the bond didn’t hold up.
It may well have some application that I haven’t found yet (maybe the track and trestle situation) but I have to say that if it weren’t available…I wouldn’t miss it. BTW Tom O-Scale, what do you mostly use it for?