"White Glue and Water" Topic

Dried white glue can handle hot water for a few seconds before loosening up. Does cold water have any affect?

I white glued some ballast down on miniatures that need some rinsing and hoping cold water won't cause as much destruction as the hot.

White glue is water soluble, so you probably ought to plan on re-ballasting the bases.

Or you could ballast a base, use white glue and let it set, and then see what happens when you run cold water on it.

Or, you might hold the figure upside down and use a paintbrush to apply water to the figure to clean it. Hopefully, none of the water would wick upwards to the mase itself.

Dave

You can usually get away with rinsing dry white glue in cold water, but if you soak it, you're done. I'd try a very quick rinse on one base before I tried mass production.

I wash miniatures in hot water all the time and mostly the grit stays on the bases

John

Would canned air or using an air compressor get the material off without the need for rinsing?

It was my pre-prime soba scrub. I compromised and used a lukewarm rinse only at the end. Usually I submerge figs in a hot soapy bath, but I didn't with these.

This was mostly to grit up a putty/paste base so the loss of some of the ballast was satisfactory. A de minimus amount came off but what did may not have been adequately secured in the first place.

Sorry for the double post. I walked away from it and returned to what appeared to be a stalled state so resubmitted.