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Re: Gluing Lego
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Date: 
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:55:43 GMT
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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) (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Re: Gluing Lego
 
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 (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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