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@Pingman posted:

@T.Albers, what adhesive did you use to attach the 1mm strips to the aluminum car body?  I ask because I have a similar task--attaching think strips to fill-in a narrow, shallow channel running the length of a passenger car.

Wonderful post; superb project; beautifully documented.  Thanks for sharing.

Hi @Pingman, that's a great question.  Last time on The Little Nugget I used medium 5~10 second CA glue.  The problem was that medium glue got pushed out from behind the styrene strips and the glue needed to be sanded flat before painting.  I did not want that extra work again using these tiny 1mm half round strips.  So on this 4-4-2 Sleeper so I used "Super Thin" 1~3 second CA glue in the blue bottle.  You have to work real fast putting on your strips with this glue because it drys quick.  Here is a close up view of how the 1mm half round strips turned out with Super Thin CA glue.  Using the thin glue was the trick and I did not have any problems this time with it getting pushed out from behind the styrene strips.   

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Super Thin CA glue

Thanks! 👍

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