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It needs to: 2. Set fairly quickly (e.g. 10 to 30 mins?) 3. Be flexible or rubbery once set (==> able to flex with the cardboard or paper base layer) 4. Be 'paintable' on with either a brush or with spatula (==> but not spray-on as this makes a mess!) Ideally it should also: 6. Not go brittle or yellow with age BACKGROUND I need to be able to apply the glue to both to small (5x5cm) areas and also to fairly large areas (e.g. A4), without it setting - in effect before I can apply the second other surface that is to be glued on.
Posted by Mick B1 on 15/03/2021 14:40:35: Agreed, and it behoves the machinery distributors to consider the possibilities of supplying it if they want the hobby side of their business to prosper. One of the reasons why ARC spent a considerable amount of money supporting the Milling and lathework for beginners series in MEW and published the subsequent book. For example it does tell you how to fit ER collets into the nut unlike any of the old books where they were not even heard of. In the 25 odd years I've been using Axminster for woodworking I have only felt their engineering side to be a ve...
I some time afterwards decided I couldn’t live without a bandsaw so bought a more expensive Femi model, which, in some ways, was even more disappointing: This too was returned (and subsequently lost by the courier, though that is another story). Feeling I still needed a bandsaw, last week I bought essentially the same Aldi bandsaw as before but this time branded under the Scheppach name. Like the first Aldi saw, out of the box the Scheppach would not cut perpendicularly to the vice/base. However, I managed to correct this by simply shimming the far side of the vice slightly. It now cuts pe...