 |
Current Website Support
Vice Admiral)( Newest Posts Shown First )
📝 LST 368
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 25 seconds ago
Online: 25 seconds ago
Doug, I can't find the VM120 anywhere, the best I've come up with is Loctite Super Glue Perfect Pen. Do,you think there's any chance of that working. I've tried ordinary super glue which was semi successful and I've tried araldite which was useless.
Cheers, Nerys
Cheers, Nerys
▲
When the winds before the rain, soon you may make sail again, but when the rain's before the wind, tops'l sheets and halyards mind
Fleet Admiral 📝 LST 368
Country: 🇩🇪 Germany
Online: 3 seconds ago
Online: 3 seconds ago
No Nerys.
I meant the VM 120 CA glue as in the Demo video.
One part, no mixing, and in a handy applicator bottle.👍
One of the many versions of Loctite may do as well.
Check out some of the demos and links on the search page link I posted.
BTW For things that size, brass photo etch which are too small to solder, I use a 'normal' CA.
Like for the little chap in the pic; a Vickers 4 barrel MG at 1:600 !!
That little gun is made of 9 parts🤓🤔🤕
Airfix 'clump' alongside for comparison.
Bon chance🤞
Doug 😎
I meant the VM 120 CA glue as in the Demo video.
One part, no mixing, and in a handy applicator bottle.👍
One of the many versions of Loctite may do as well.
Check out some of the demos and links on the search page link I posted.
BTW For things that size, brass photo etch which are too small to solder, I use a 'normal' CA.
Like for the little chap in the pic; a Vickers 4 barrel MG at 1:600 !!
That little gun is made of 9 parts🤓🤔🤕
Airfix 'clump' alongside for comparison.
Bon chance🤞
Doug 😎
▲
2
Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.;-/ Cheers Doug
Lieutenant Commander 📝 LST 368
Country: 🇿🇦 South Africa
Online: 1 minute ago
Online: 1 minute ago
Ty Araldite, I think I have seen one around for metal. Also Loctite everybodies go-to
▲
1
Only old in years not mind or soul.
📝 LST 368
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 25 seconds ago
Online: 25 seconds ago
Hi Doug, are you talking about the epoxy metal, two part glue? I can imagine it working very well but for the fiddly little bits in the kit, I think even mixing tiny amounts, it would go off before one could use it all, The bits, I'm making the guns at the moment and they are really fiddly, three pieces for something about 10mm high. It's more than my fingers could bear. I tried to make up a lattice tower last night, it was for mounting a DF or something. Not much luck gluing it with super glue but Alice had the idea of wiring it together with fuse wire and that seems to be working.
Cheers, Nerys
Cheers, Nerys
▲
1
When the winds before the rain, soon you may make sail again, but when the rain's before the wind, tops'l sheets and halyards mind
📝 LST 368
Country: 🇩🇪 Germany
Online: 3 seconds ago
Online: 3 seconds ago
Hi Nerys,
You do seem to be getting into some 'sticky' situations with that kit😮
This VM 120 stuff seems to be the accepted bee's knees for that sort of job👍
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ca+glue+f...
Haven't tried it yet myself, no need thus far, but you never know😉😉
Keep well, both of youse!
Cheers, Doug 😎
You do seem to be getting into some 'sticky' situations with that kit😮
This VM 120 stuff seems to be the accepted bee's knees for that sort of job👍
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ca+glue+f...
Haven't tried it yet myself, no need thus far, but you never know😉😉
Keep well, both of youse!
Cheers, Doug 😎
▲
3
Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.;-/ Cheers Doug
📝 LST 368
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 25 seconds ago
Online: 25 seconds ago
Somehow, I've reached the stage of making up various bits and pieces like the guns, from the imitation metal supplied. I thought that superglue would do the job of sticking, but it's not very efficient and doesn't really stick well. Once again, when it comes to adhesives, a plea for help. What should I be using ?
Cheers, Nerys
Cheers, Nerys
▲
2
When the winds before the rain, soon you may make sail again, but when the rain's before the wind, tops'l sheets and halyards mind
📝 LST 368
Country: 🇿🇦 South Africa
Online: 1 minute ago
Online: 1 minute ago
Agree with Doug,
The pipe weld sticks quickly
Regards
Ianh
The pipe weld sticks quickly
Regards
Ianh
▲
3
Only old in years not mind or soul.
📝 LST 368
Country: 🇩🇪 Germany
Online: 3 seconds ago
Online: 3 seconds ago
Why not Nerys?
AB is only a long and unpronounceable additive to the 'S' - Styrene😉
Apply with a small brush - and don't get all stuck up!!🤗😁
As I recall the solvents evaporate faster than with 'standard' kit polyS cement.
So speed and accuracy is required!!
All the best, Doug 😎
AB is only a long and unpronounceable additive to the 'S' - Styrene😉
Apply with a small brush - and don't get all stuck up!!🤗😁
As I recall the solvents evaporate faster than with 'standard' kit polyS cement.
So speed and accuracy is required!!
All the best, Doug 😎
▲
3
Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.;-/ Cheers Doug
📝 LST 368
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 25 seconds ago
Online: 25 seconds ago
As an experiment I purchased a jar of Evo-Stik pipe weld cement, £6.99 for 250 ml. I tried sticking some bits of waste from the LST build together and it did, just as well as the polycement. It says it's for PVC and ABS pipes and fittings, I would add LST kits. Cheap alternative?
Cheers, Nerys
Cheers, Nerys
▲
4
When the winds before the rain, soon you may make sail again, but when the rain's before the wind, tops'l sheets and halyards mind
Captain 📝 LST 368
Country: 🇨🇦 Canada
Online: 3 hours ago
Online: 3 hours ago
Good going! Your turrets look great.
A little story about gun turrets; back in 1955, travelling aboard a former troop transport vessel, it was the one place out on deck our parents felt safe having my brother and me play. They knew we would not fall overboard while playing in the empty round turrets. We were 7& 5 back then, we had a good crossing from N.Y. to Plymouth.
A little story about gun turrets; back in 1955, travelling aboard a former troop transport vessel, it was the one place out on deck our parents felt safe having my brother and me play. They knew we would not fall overboard while playing in the empty round turrets. We were 7& 5 back then, we had a good crossing from N.Y. to Plymouth.
▲
4
