Fokker G-4

[Steel Penguin]

ive not tried gluing with it,  but getting it...  cheap and nasty nail varnish remover had a base of acetone a few years back,  we  were discussing how to de-grease a project some one else had and it was mentioned.  i think the additions were a tint and possibly some bitters, to try and stop people drinking it.      might be worth a look

[PR19_Kit]

No but it sounds tricky. It's as thin as water so guaranteed to get everywhere. It's something I'll keep in mind when working with different plastics. If you can't find it at the hardware store try the cosmetic counter among the fingernail paint.

I'm reliably informed that fingernail stuff is all acetone-free these days, but it used to be the 'remover of choice' back in the day.

[kerick]

My wife had a finger nail emergency once and I tried to help her out. First thing she pulls out is a bottle of acetone, cotton balls and aluminum foil. "Soak the cotton balls with acetone and wrap them around the nail with foil" she says. I've had lots of chemistry classes where that would have gotten you thrown out for safety reasons.

[The Wooksta!]

I have a vacform Vickers Windsor in the stash, and it's staying there 

I think I have too, and that's a LOT of plastic to sand down! 

The wing of the G-4 is nicely tidied up now, LEs and TEs as thin as they're ever going to be anyway, and I'm sanding down the booms now. They're not as simple to do as the wings and the very devil to hold on to as I'm sanding, but I'm getting there slowly.

I read the small print more closely and it seems the clear plastic fuselage pod needs to be glued with ACETONE! I'm not sure you can still buy it over the counter, so I test glued some strips of the clear stuff with gel superglue, and it sticks nicely and doesn't seem to fog the windows like liquid superglue does.

Has anyone tried gluing with acetone before?

Girls!  Try a Ju 390!

[loupgarou]

Over here acetone is still normally available. I don't know if I could send you a liter bottle over the mail. 

[PR19_Kit]

Got the starboard boom sanded down and glued and taped up. It doesn't look too bad, but will need quite a bit sanding down tomorrow once it's dried.

It was MUCH harder to sand down than the wings, there's so little to grab hold of, despite me having two tape loops attached to it.

[NARSES2]

Over here acetone is still normally available. I don't know if I could send you a liter bottle over the mail. 

And see who gets raided first by the local police 

[NARSES2]

I read the small print more closely and it seems the clear plastic fuselage pod needs to be glued with ACETONE! I'm not sure you can still buy it over the counter, so I test glued some strips of the clear stuff with gel superglue, and it sticks nicely and doesn't seem to fog the windows like liquid superglue does.

Standard superglue is ok to use with canopies providing the fumes have somewhere to go. If sealed, as in a normal canopy/fuselage joint then they will almost certainly fog the canopy. Never tried gel. However what about good old 2 part epoxy, some of the stuff you get in small tubes is quite thin.

[zenrat]

Over here acetone is still normally available. I don't know if I could send you a liter bottle over the mail. 

As a flammable liquid, subject to dangerous goods legislation, it'd be road transport only.

[PR19_Kit]

I filed up the starboard boom, and that needed quite a bit of filing too, and will need a fair amount if PSR later as well. The problem is usually that the mouldings aren't exactly the same height, width or length, even with a first class moulder as Rareplanes, so the edges quite often have a step to them. In this boom's case it was a pretty hefty step and even after lots of filing, and I'll need to build up one side with putty, but there's nothing new about that of course.

Then I glued the boom assembly onto  the wing and was quite pleased how well it fitted. That too will need some PSR, but that's to be expected. And once the whole assembly  had dried off I sliced off the engine, which was quite easy as only the bottom half of them was attached to the wing anyway, I didn't bother to glue the top half as they were due to be cut off.



Just got to all that lot again for the other side, lots MORE sanding in prospect of course.