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Hofacker · Aug 28, 2003 07:48 AM

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http://www.naut-res-guild.org/Services/shopnotes/glue.html

I came across the above link on glues and thought y'all might find it interesting. I suspect that some of you might argue with some of the conclusions contained. But, for the most part I agree with them from my own experience building full scale wooden homebuilt aircraft and wood model airplanes. They state that contact glue has little durability. My experiences support that conclusion. My own attempts at using contact glue for skins on foam core wings has been less than desirable in the durability department. The skins delaminate after time. They also claim that CA glue should be avoided! I use a lot a CA glue without problem. I do prefer "white" (or "yellow") glue for most gluing especially where I can "clamp" the parts into position while the glue sets or where the joint is less than perfect (most of mine are in this category). I use CA glue a lot for tacking parts into place while a second coat of "carpenter's" glue dries. Guess I'm just old fashioned...

For my full scale airplane I prefer epoxy or Resorcinol...

Good joinery is most important for any glue joint

Ion Brazil · Aug 28, 2003 08:00 AM

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I've been rediscovering epoxy.

Use it VERY sparringly and you won't gain s much weight.

And ne thing I can tellya: if you want a job done, use epoxy!

In Christ,

Ion

Hofacker · Aug 28, 2003 08:09 AM

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>I've been rediscovering epoxy.
>
>Use it VERY sparringly and you won't gain s much weight.
>
>And ne thing I can tellya: if you want a job done, use
>epoxy!
>
>In Christ,
>
>Ion


Also, remember: all epoxies are NOT created equal! some are better than others for particular applications.