Glue for loco body :: Hornby Hobbies

Grandpa

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Posted at 10:14:04 Mon 16 Dec 2019

What glue should I use to stick a lug back onto the underside of a loco cab?

Last Edited 10:21:31 Mon 23 Dec 2019

atom3624

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Posted at 10:19:46 Mon 16 Dec 2019

Hi David, welcome to the forum. Could you give a few more details?

Hornby, Bachmann, Lima, other?

Plastic, metal?

Shape, weight?

Viewable when in operation?

Perhaps post a couple of photos.

Take care answering. You're only allowed 2 posts 1st time around.

Al.

Posted 10:19:46 Mon 16 Dec 2019

Grandpa

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Posted at 09:03:28 Fri 20 Dec 2019

Thanks for reply Al. It's a plastic bodied Hornby 'Evening Star'. My father had regularly worked the loco at Cardiff Canton so I bought the model for him when he became housebound. Unfortunately, failing eyesight and arthritic fingers caused the pin linking loco and tender to separate a bit crudely, taking the nut and part of the underside of the plastic body with it. I did a couple of glue tests out of sight and found superglue worked. The result seems solid and is invisible from the exterior. Success!

Posted 09:03:28 Fri 20 Dec 2019

LC&DR

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Posted at 09:38:19 Fri 20 Dec 2019

Generally 'Super Glue' will tackle most jobs provided there is adequate surfaces for it to get a hold. Liquid poly is what I would use for most plastic to plastic bodywork repairs.

Posted 09:38:19 Fri 20 Dec 2019

atom3624

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Posted at 10:44:50 Fri 20 Dec 2019

Nice there's a happy ending.

Even more interesting is that your father actually worked the original locomotive - do you have any photos of that?

Al.

Posted 10:44:50 Fri 20 Dec 2019

Iliketransport

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Posted at 11:11:09 Fri 20 Dec 2019

Something I find with superglue is that it leaves a white frosting - is this just the one I use or a general problem?

Posted 11:11:09 Fri 20 Dec 2019

walkingthedog

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Posted at 11:12:33 Fri 20 Dec 2019

No it is normal.

Posted 11:12:33 Fri 20 Dec 2019

walkingthedog

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Posted at 11:17:33 Fri 20 Dec 2019

Generally 'Super Glue' will tackle most jobs provided there is adequate surfaces for it to get a hold. Liquid poly is what I would use for most plastic to plastic bodywork repairs.

I find that liquid poly often doesn't work with locos, wrong sort of plastic.

Posted 11:17:33 Fri 20 Dec 2019

ColinB

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Posted at 11:54:01 Fri 20 Dec 2019

Yes, I find "Super Glue" seems to work the best. I also found liquid poly doesn't work very well. The biggest issue I found is if you get some of the "Super Glue" on your fingers you have to be careful you do not touch the loco body, as you get a nice glue fingerprint. Unfortunately, "Super Glue" is brilliant at sticking fingers to anything, sometimes better than the thing you want to glue.

Posted 11:54:01 Fri 20 Dec 2019

JJ

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Posted at 02:27:52 Mon 23 Dec 2019

I think that we all agree about

"Super Glue" is brilliant at sticking fingers to anything, sometimes better than the thing you want to glue.

This has also been said about in the Thread called "cardboard-models"!!!

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Posted 02:27:52 Mon 23 Dec 2019

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Posted at 10:21:31 Mon 23 Dec 2019

This could confirm ... the obvious:

In 1942, while searching for materials to make clear plastic gun sights, Coover and his team at Eastman Kodak examined cyanoacrylates, a material that was used during both World Wars (1914-1918; 1939-1945) as an alternative to stitches on large cuts and wounds, rejecting them as too sticky.

Al.

Posted 10:21:31 Mon 23 Dec 2019

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