05-14-2013, 10:19 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
The Testors Blue-Tube Plastic cement contains d-Limonene as the main bonding agent.
It is LOUSY for EVERYTHING.
You would be much better off using Green or Yellow Tube Testors WOOD Cement for a sealer or for bonding paper skins to fins.
Put the Blue Tube glue where it belongs. In the GARBAGE CAN.
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Last night I ordered a 5/8 ounce tube of it, and I'm going to try it (on scrap balsa) as a wood grain filler and as a paper laminating glue.
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Originally Posted by jetlag
Agree with GH completely!
The green tube that is the wood glue sucks badly as well. It is terrible in that it has little bonding strength and becomes brittle once dry.
Much better alternatives exist to the Testor's adhesives; why they maintain these ridiculously awful formulations is a mystery to me. They all suck massively, and I refuse to use them anymore.
They all should be pulled from the market in my opinion.
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I agree, but for my limited proposed application the brittleness shouldn't be a problem. My first choice would be the orange-tube Testors " toxic cement for plastic models" < :-) > as an experimental wood grain filler and laminating glue, but I figured I'd try the blue-tube variety simply because it (hopefully) isn't as unpleasantly aromatic as the orange-tube stuff.
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