Guys, thanks. I will give acetone a try, as I have a can of it that I use to clean my airbrush when I'm not too lazy to use it.
I have been learning how these various "glues" work. For example, MEK seems pretty benign, works with a lot of plastics (I'll call them all that)and doesn't eat styrene. Plastruct's Plastic Weld works well with styrene and while aggresive (quick!), doesn't destroy the material. And it seems to stick to my Marklon as good as anything. TAP liquid cement (you'll have to ask Russ what it's called)is designed to work with acrylic (it's supposed to dry clear, so that you can make display cases) and sticks good, but wow! will it attack small pieces of styrene! Anyway, I kinda switch back and forth among them all depending on the size of the work and how ambitious I feel (long hours of cutting and pasting tend to wear a guy down). BTW, when I spoke to Russ the TAP Man about stuff sticking to Marklon, he said that not much does. It's like some of the "plastic" used in Bachmann locos or in railroad track ties. In short, about the only thing that seems to bind to it is epoxy, I guess. Please feel free to correct me, as I am totally making this up as I go along. /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/tongue.gif
Oh, about the syringe. I got one of thes plastic bottles with what looks like a hypodermic needle on it. Well, guess what? It has a large orfice, so when I tipped the bottle over (I didn't even squeeze it or anything) the cement squirted outta there like a firehose. That's OK if your gluing big pieces together, but I was trying to make window mullions! Maybe a real needle like the hospital uses, woudl work. BTW, I use an OO or smaller paint brush as an applicator, but ya gotta pick the right material (horse hair or whatever). I just bought a brush that is some synthetic and the hairs all stick together if you leave 'em alone for a minute or so.
I have been learning how these various "glues" work. For example, MEK seems pretty benign, works with a lot of plastics (I'll call them all that)and doesn't eat styrene. Plastruct's Plastic Weld works well with styrene and while aggresive (quick!), doesn't destroy the material. And it seems to stick to my Marklon as good as anything. TAP liquid cement (you'll have to ask Russ what it's called)is designed to work with acrylic (it's supposed to dry clear, so that you can make display cases) and sticks good, but wow! will it attack small pieces of styrene! Anyway, I kinda switch back and forth among them all depending on the size of the work and how ambitious I feel (long hours of cutting and pasting tend to wear a guy down). BTW, when I spoke to Russ the TAP Man about stuff sticking to Marklon, he said that not much does. It's like some of the "plastic" used in Bachmann locos or in railroad track ties. In short, about the only thing that seems to bind to it is epoxy, I guess. Please feel free to correct me, as I am totally making this up as I go along. /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/tongue.gif
Oh, about the syringe. I got one of thes plastic bottles with what looks like a hypodermic needle on it. Well, guess what? It has a large orfice, so when I tipped the bottle over (I didn't even squeeze it or anything) the cement squirted outta there like a firehose. That's OK if your gluing big pieces together, but I was trying to make window mullions! Maybe a real needle like the hospital uses, woudl work. BTW, I use an OO or smaller paint brush as an applicator, but ya gotta pick the right material (horse hair or whatever). I just bought a brush that is some synthetic and the hairs all stick together if you leave 'em alone for a minute or so.
