[WWI] Gorilla glue?

[Patrick Cook]

Hi Ernest - thanks for the 411 on the glue.

I use invisible sewing thread and super glue for my rigging.  The thread is smoke colored, straight as an arrow, durable and thin.  The only down side is cleaning up the super glue that invariably ends up gathering at the exit point for the thread.

Once I tried to use a piece of thread to drop a small amount of glue *into* the rigging hole only (to see if I could avoid getting glue onto the surface of the model, just into the holes) . . . I tried unsuccessfully TWENTY TIMES on a practice model.  All attempts left some amount of glue on the surface of the model to be cleaned up.  And as usual, the glue does not sand down at the same rate as the surrounding plastic so you get hills and valleys when you are trying to get flat areas.  Using super glue makes it very hard to get wings and other surfaces plained down smooth and flat.

Oh well.

Patrick C.
Atlanta
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ernest thomas<mailto:reason108 at hotmail.com> 
  To: wwi at wwi-models.org<mailto:wwi at wwi-models.org> 
  Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [WWI] Gorilla glue?


  Patrick,
  I've never used the stuff personally but my boss has and he really hates it. 
  Says it's a big, EXPANDING sticky mess. Doesn't sound like something I'd 
  want anywhere near my models.
  What do you use for rigging? I use hard wire, attached with white(Elmers) 
  glue. Dries clear, shrinks as it dries and splooges clean up easily.
  E.