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Re: new stuff on my site (coach, trolley...again, LEGO Logo art)
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:20:54 GMT
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Christopher Masi wrote:
> Yes, I did know about the doors, that is how I have two doors on my trolley
> opening in opposite directions. Unfortunately, I used a bit to much Super Glue
> on one door so the glass is frosted a bit, and there is a finger
> print...errrrrr! Also, when it comes to LEGO Super Glue is anything but super.
> It never holds well. I have had some success with epoxies (the glue that comes
> in two tubes). I use epoxy to hold the LEGO to my computer. But epoxy is
> extremely unwieldy (wow nover wrote that word before...it looks funny so I
> looked it up) and goopy (looked that one up too, but it is not in my
> dictionary). The epoxy doesn't actually bond to the LEGO; the epoxy can be pried
> (another wierd (wouldn't you know I spelled weird wrong) looking word) loose. I
> guess we need to find out what LEGO uses to hold the glass in the frame, because
> it was in there pretty good.
I think Liquid plastic modelers cement would work reasonably well for
glueing Lego bricks together since it is a solvent (and is intested for
Polystyrene which should be sufficiently similar to ABS (Acrylonitrile
Butadiene Styrene) to work). Is the "glass" ABS?
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Frank Filz
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Glue for models
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| woohoo! This is definitely in my field. When I was building models for LEGO we used two different types of glues. (this was different across different model shops, so this really only applies to Enfield.) For 95% of the gluing we used a mix of ABS (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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