View Single Post
  #4  
Old 05-14-2013, 10:19 AM
blackshire's Avatar
blackshire blackshire is offline
Master Modeler
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
Default

Quote:
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.
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.
Quote:
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.
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.
__________________
Black Shire--Draft horse in human form, model rocketeer, occasional mystic, and writer, see:
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperba...an-form/8075185
http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6122050
http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511
All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com.
NAR #54895 SR
Reply With Quote