I love Elmer's Glue All, the old white stuff. The important thing to remember with Elmers, Wood Glues and Cement is to double glue. The wood is porous so by double gluing you are sealing the pores, making for a stronger joint. Also the glue dries real fast with this technique. If you search scigs30 you will see my builds, they were all built using white glue. The problem with CA for me, is that It dries so fast that there is no room for error. Balsa wood cement is also a good glue, but the smell is too strong to use inside for me. One more thing, there is no miracle glue for a poor joint, so make sure all joints are a sure fit.
I built my last 3 using an aliphatic resin wood glue this bottle is trademarked great planes. it dries slowly enough to make adjustments, is very sand-able when dry and seems to be very good for filling in those not so great joints. cliffm
Hi, if you have a bad or broken joint in your construcion a blob of Gorilla glue works wonders this will foam and expand to fill the joint or small hole, you only need a small ammount ,practce with it first trim off the excess with a scapel when dry, be carefull that you dont get any on the rest of your frame or plastic parts or hands as it sets very hard,i found the pen sized bottle the best to use.
I use mostly Duco, also 527. They are both similar to Ambroid and Sig-ment. One difference I have noticed, they have a less strong odor than the tube of Sig-ment I purchased recently. I hadn't bought any of it in many years and was surprised by how much stronger the odor was than the Duco or 527. It's been retired to occasional usage when I'm out of the others.
I really like the Duco for plastic to balsa or covering ,you can put a bead on piecesthat dries to look like a molded seam and the smell isn't as noxious as the other combo glues,but my old reliable is the elmers.
I rarely use anything but CA glue and epoxy. Have to be quick and accurate with CA though and use a mask and ventilation. I am very sensitive to CA but I love it anyway.
A bumblebee isn't supposed to fly but does.
My plane is supposed to fly but doesn't.
Balances out doesn't it : )
I just use white wood glue, use he same stuff thinned down for attaching tissue. I hate CA it stinks nasty, is heavy, brittle and difficult to sand..I only use it to "tack" wire parts in place before I use epoxy, or when I attach the start of a piece of cotton when I'm binding a U/C wire....
I just use white wood glue, use he same stuff thinned down for attaching tissue. I hate CA it stinks nasty, is heavy, brittle and difficult to sand..I only use it to "tack" wire parts in place before I use epoxy, or when I attach the start of a piece of cotton when I'm binding a U/C wire....
I have found that Elmers wood craft glue works great. It is thick and does not run, and dries fairly quickly. I get it at Wal Mart. If I can ever figure out how to post pics on here, I'll post some of the 1000 series Thunderbolt currently under construction using this glue.
For a short time I used the CA and got some "major" headaches which I finally diagnosed as CA related. I like the stuff for some of those jobs where it's nice to have that quick set but now, only when necessary.
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