Glazing - your thoughts please
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Re: Glazing - your thoughts please
Thanks to both! Useful links if I decide to try glass Re6/6, thank you.
Re: Glazing - your thoughts please
Will L wrote:David Thorpe wrote:I've tried a number of adhesives, but found Canopy Glue best. It looks just like PVA....
That's because it is just a fairly thick sort of PVA. Ordinary wood glues will do the same job.
They don't. I've just run an experiment, gluing some perspex to bare brass. I used a cheap PVA I bought at a model show, Evostik Wood Glue (probably the best PVA I normally use) and Formula 560 Canopy Glue. The cheap PVA was useless, the Evostik made a pretty decent stab at it but peeled off quite easily, while the Canopy Glue was clearly the most effective.
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David Thorpe wrote:Will L wrote:David Thorpe wrote:I've tried a number of adhesives, but found Canopy Glue best. It looks just like PVA....
That's because it is just a fairly thick sort of PVA. Ordinary wood glues will do the same job.
They don't. I've just run an experiment, gluing some perspex to bare brass. I used a cheap PVA I bought at a model show, Evostik Wood Glue (probably the best PVA I normally use) and Formula 560 Canopy Glue. The cheap PVA was useless, the Evostik made a pretty decent stab at it but peeled off quite easily, while the Canopy Glue was clearly the most effective.
DT
Very useful, David, thanks.
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Re: Glazing - your thoughts please
My preferred adhesive for fixing glazing is GS-Hypo cement
https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/gs-supplie ... 66231-1000
Jonathan
https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/gs-supplie ... 66231-1000
Jonathan
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Re: Glazing - your thoughts please
Staples transparency film, cut on white paper, picked up in tweezers. Inside window opening given a quick brush with Johnson's clear. Move the film into place, add more Clear with the brush - capilliary action will drag it into place. Do a side at a time and leave to dry before starting the other side. Easy.
If you've a corridor coach without doors dotted down it, even easier.
Stay safe
Mike
If you've a corridor coach without doors dotted down it, even easier.
Stay safe
Mike
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