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Trainman2001 posted:

All good. Regarding Goo. I find that contact cements lose their grip over time. I have a model ship that I painstakingly applied individual copper tiles on the bottom. Almost all of those tiles have now detached themselves over the 40 that the model has existed. All glues have their pluses and minuses. For styrene, I also use Tenax or Plastruct's Bounden, but I apply it will a Touch-n-Flow applicator. This is a piece of small O.D. glass tubing with a piece of capillary tubing in the end. It enables you to apply small quantities very carefully. A little solvent cement goes a long way. Too much and the plastic parts you're assembling start to degrade.

 

 

I had not heard of the touch and go but use a similar technique. Fine tip tweezers used like a drawing pen. Dip into the liquid, Tenax, Plastruct, etc, close the tweezers then open them where you want to apply it. It alows micro drops to be applied precisely at the spot like HO grab holes.

Pete

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