by Bill Livingston » Fri Oct 20, 2017 12:10 pm
I use the same... more or less.
I have all three grades of Zap superglues which I prefer of all the types I have used over the years.
Pink - Thin, I use to run a thin bead along lines... its thin enough for capillary action to do most of the work and is clean and neat.
Green - Medium, which I use mostly for simply gluing and probably gets used the most.
Yellow - Thick. This is also called Slo-Zap and is good for gap filling and sands really well.
I know a lot of modellers solder.. but although I solder a lot for work, would never use solder for brass. Most of the PE I use is tiny and distorts and I can never get anything like the fineness of application soldering things. I would use this only for major components and even then, would probably avoid it.
The bond is probably the strongest and I'm sure highly skilled practitioners of soldering would make very neat joins in brass.. but for me, it just feels too crude. (But then look at EJ's work... he soldered his 350 scale pom moms... and how he did that is totally beyond me!!!
Masts on the other hand - I would solder brass rod (or tube) masts. And they clean up rather well, too, with sanding and polish finishing.
Application is by very fine wire... probably similar in thickness to a single bristle as per the previous reply... but I actually like the idea of a single thin/fine bristle from a paintbrush in preference to slowly reducing my ultra fine wire stocks and will look into that, too.
I use the same... more or less.
I have all three grades of Zap superglues which I prefer of all the types I have used over the years.
Pink - Thin, I use to run a thin bead along lines... its thin enough for capillary action to do most of the work and is clean and neat.
Green - Medium, which I use mostly for simply gluing and probably gets used the most.
Yellow - Thick. This is also called Slo-Zap and is good for gap filling and sands really well.
I know a lot of modellers solder.. but although I solder a lot for work, would never use solder for brass. Most of the PE I use is tiny and distorts and I can never get anything like the fineness of application soldering things. I would use this only for major components and even then, would probably avoid it.
The bond is probably the strongest and I'm sure highly skilled practitioners of soldering would make very neat joins in brass.. but for me, it just feels too crude. (But then look at EJ's work... he soldered his 350 scale pom moms... and how he did that is totally beyond me!!!
Masts on the other hand - I would solder brass rod (or tube) masts. And they clean up rather well, too, with sanding and polish finishing.
Application is by very fine wire... probably similar in thickness to a single bristle as per the previous reply... but I actually like the idea of a single thin/fine bristle from a paintbrush in preference to slowly reducing my ultra fine wire stocks and will look into that, too.