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Model Forum / General / Models / December 2005Thinning Tamiya cement.
Like a fool, I left the lid off my bottle of Tamiya liquid cement last time I used it and now its pretty gooey. Still liquid, just, but very thick. What could I use to thin it back to its working consistency? Advice appreciated. It's simpler just to replace it with fresh cement and pitch the original. There's practically nothing to be gained in thinning the old stuff. MB > From: "donut" <donut@hotmail.com> > Newsgroups: rec.models.scale [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > could I use to thin it back to its working consistency? > Advice appreciated. Yeah, guess so. Just me being tight. It was almost a whole new bottle, sob. > It's simpler just to replace it with fresh cement and pitch the original. > There's practically nothing to be gained in thinning the old stuff. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > could I use to thin it back to its working consistency? > > Advice appreciated. > Yeah, guess so. Just me being tight. It was almost a whole new bottle, > sob. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> > could I use to thin it back to its working consistency? >> > Advice appreciated. You can still use the older, thicker stuff for glueing the somewhat gappier joints. Dennis The thinner IS the cement. It's a solvent. The rest is just dissolved plastic to give it a little body. One of the first issues of FSM gave a formulation for making your own glue. Testors said we can't advertise in your magazine with these types of articles; I can't blame them. Laquer thinner or acetone may help thin your cement, unless you can find toluol. hth The Keeper Am 13 Dec 2005 15:46:47 -0800 schrieb "The Keeper": >One of the first issues of FSM gave a formulation for making your own >glue. Testors said we can't advertise in your magazine with these types >of articles; I can't blame them. Laquer thinner or acetone may help >thin your cement, unless you can find toluol. Don't use toluol - it is (imho) a bit too aggressive to your health. and nearly all lacqer thinners need much too long time to cure, and so will 'eat' your models The best working self made thin and fast polystyrene glue I ever had, was a bottle of chloroform with some clear PS and SAN (sprues from modelling trash) dissolved within, so it couldn't dissolve too much of the model while curing :-))) BTW: DO NOT sniff at the bottle - else you will soon become addict to it, and your liver (and other organs, too) will suffer seriously. cu, ZiLi aka HKZL (Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker)  Signature"Abusus non tollit usum" - Latin: Abuse is no argument against proper use. mailto: heinrich@zili.de http://zili.de Vollmer Plastic Cement uses toluol. Testors uses Methyl Ethyl Ketome (MEK). Tenax (and few others) use Methylene Chloride. They are all nasty chemicals, but we still use them (in ventilated rooms, I hope). Plastruct Cement used to be made with Chloroform, but they've changed the formula. Chloroform is not all the healthy either... Peteski >Like a fool, I left the lid off my bottle of Tamiya liquid cement last time >I used it and now its pretty gooey. Still liquid, just, but very thick. What >could I use to thin it back to its working consistency? >Advice appreciated. The solvent is chloroform. You can make your own glue by dissolving spre in chloroform. For your problem just buy a new bottle of liquid glue and use that as a solvent to thin the gooey stuff. I prefer my brush-on glue to be slightly gooey anyway. Thanks for all the advice. Guess what I`ll try first is buying a new bottle and using some of that to thin the old stuff down. Problem is, I can`t buy the cement locally so I have to get it online and the postage is more than the cost of the glue so I usually end up buying a couple of kits as well to make it worthwhile and... wait, that`s a good thing, innit? > Like a fool, I left the lid off my bottle of Tamiya liquid cement last time > I used it and now its pretty gooey. Still liquid, just, but very thick. What > could I use to thin it back to its working consistency? > Advice appreciated. |
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