"What do people mean by Uhu glue? " Topic

I've heard mention of the use of Uhu glue on TMP. Where I live, Vancouver BC Canada, all I can find locally are Uhu glue sticks (and adhesive putties but I don't imagine thats what people were talking about). Are glue sticks what people mean by Uhu glue?

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I've never used it but, perhaps, this is it

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That's the brand name.

Uhu also means owl in German.

It's a European glue, IIRC.

Bonds to all sorts of stuff, which is why people like it.

Ace Hardware carries it here in the USA. Don't know if you have any of those up your way or not.

It comes in a tube, like the old styrene cement/glue used to, and still does today.

Duco Cement also works well for various modeling materials. Professional modelers and model makers use both glues for their projects, since you can glue mat-board to acrylic, etc..

I use it for sticking figures to bases and sticking metal to metal. It's not nearly as strong as superglue but is more of a gel, so if the bond breaks it's usually a perfect fit to put back together so then I use superglue.

In the UK people of a certain age know their glues as:

UHU – clear contact adhesive, in a yellow tube. Great for crafting (card, rubber etc.)

Evo-Stik – stringy amber/light brown contact adhesive, in a red & white/silver tube. Stick almost anything to anything else if mating surface area large enough.

Copydex – white fishy smelling contact adhesive, latex based in a white bottle with red writing. Good for crafting and sticking school children to everything!

Bostik – clear contact adhesive, in a red tube with blue on yellow logo. Not as commonly found as the above.

Remember Otto Waalkes:
"Ein Uhu – wieso ist er nicht in seiner Tube?"
Uhu = owl.But of course the pun can't be translated.
Sorry, couldn't resist nevertheless.

UHU has a very distinctive smell too, I quite like the smell tbh.

There's now a gel form of it, less stringy. Brilliant for gluing figures to painting sticks.

copydex !!!!!
Takes me waaaaay back, mash up a stack of fish, leave to rot for a month then take a good sniff.

Unforgettable smell from primary school days :)

The putty is insanely useful for board wargaming. With pinhead-sized balls between counters, you can mount a map on the wall and play on it (no magnets needed!). If you're playing with the map on a tabletop, you can slide a board under the map and then stick it somewhere to store it between sessions. I even folded up a map with the counters on it and stuck it in the game box. If you're just playing a game with really tall stacks of counters, or if you have cats, it will keep stacks from getting scattered or knocked out of place.

The best way to separate counters is with a little twist instead of pulling. Some cheap counters will try to delaminate.

After 5 years, it'll stain a glossy map and counters. Probably less for uncoated maps. A very long time, in any case.

Sounds like KYPD38 is sniffing glue

von S – is that still a 'thing'? Do remember seeing the glue sniffers slumped on benches on the Underground in the early 90s but not seen or heard anything about solvent abuse since then.

If I want to kill brain cells tis gin all the way.

Uhu also means owl in German.

Ein Uhu – wieso ist er nicht in seiner Tube?"
Uhu = owl.But of course the pun can't be translated.

Not sure about the pun but Uhu does not mean Owl in German. "Eule" is owl in German. Uhu is specific species of owl known as an eagle owl. Kind of like Ookpik meaning a Snowy Owl.

I found the UHU plastic cement was the only glue that works of the weird Starship Troopers plastic figures. The Testors and Tamiya styrene cements didn't work as well.