Re: Another question: covering glue

From: Bruce Mccrory <brucemccrory_at_ymail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:59:49 -0000

I use 3M 77.

It is sprayed into a container (done years ago). I recharge and thin the cement with Lighter Fluid (Bestine?). I wet a Q-tip and let it dry to a tacky consistency, then roll the Q-Tip over the surface to be covered.

Others swear by rubber cement, which does not absorb into wood.

I only use 3M outdoors. It stinks, it turns everything it touches into a sticky mess. There is no place indoors that stuff can be used safely. Hense, the bottle and ear swabs.

Bruce

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo@...> wrote:
>
> My other question is about the covering glue. So far I have been
> spraying 3M - 77 straight out of the can, but after a while the glue
> starts to come out in bigger lumps, and also some fine threads. No good.
> Last year I tried diluting the glue into xylene and then brushing on the
> structure, but that was a no-go, building up horrendous amounts of
> weight before there was any stickiness. Obviously the glue went into the
> wood.
>
> I've heard (in this group) that if the frame is put onto the film and
> then dilute glue is brushed onto the seam, the glue will keep to the
> foil and not soak into the wood. So that would be one option. But I'd
> rather add the glue onto the frame first. I wonder if it would be
> possible to use an airbrush to spray diluted glue onto structures?
> Assuming that the spray can has started misbehaving as glue has become
> too thick in the can?
>
>
>
> -Tapio-
>
Received on Wed Aug 17 2011 - 20:59:49 CEST