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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Thomas Stangl wrote:
> MEK is about all that will work well. The parks use a combo of MEK and
> liquid ABS resin, but MEK will work well enough. You can get pint cans
> of it at various hardware stores, I'm pretty sure HD/Lowe's would have
> it in the paint dept. If not, try mom&pop hardware stores.
>
> Be careful using it, as I believe it will damage the normal finish of
> the bricks (I think that is what the liquid ABS is for - increased
> adhesion, and giving a glossy surface). Try to only put it on the
> internals of the bricks before pressing them on the sculpture, and go
> light on it.
>
> Use it outdoors, it's nasty stuff.
Hey guys,
Thanks for all of your suggestions--the event organizer is handling the gluing
of the trophies now, so all I had to do was build them. He had been using Crazy
Glue as one person had suggested, but it was pretty expensive. I had a can of
Oatey's cement from a failed rtl event I had tried to get people interested in
(yeah, neither Chris nor I always get events we want-ref PipeRacers) as Larry
had suggested and gave it to him to try. We'll see what he chooses in the end.
If anyone cares to see the trophies, I can post pictures of them up. I ended up
building nine trophies, seven yellow small ones about 7" tall and two larger
ones as grand prizes. I hope some kids get a kick out of them when they win
them at the FLL Toronto Qualifying tomorrow.
Calum
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| (...) I think it is a rare sort of glue where I say that crazy glue is LESS nasty, but it is... Oateys IS nasty stuff, so in my view that's a reason to use CA/ACC. That said, and while I know Ondrew has done some great work (and others have too) (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| MEK is about all that will work well. The parks use a combo of MEK and liquid ABS resin, but MEK will work well enough. You can get pint cans of it at various hardware stores, I'm pretty sure HD/Lowe's would have it in the paint dept. If not, try (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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