| Widowson | 21 May 2020 8:04 p.m. PST |
I need a recommendation for a cement available in the US for soft plastic 1/72 figures. I want the kind that melts and fuses the surfaces. Toxic fumes be damned. Not Superglue. |
| Bunkermeister | 21 May 2020 8:16 p.m. PST |
There isn't one. Soft plastic is the plastic used to hold many glues or at least as the lid. A couple choices. Get nHeptane, sold in art supply stores, used as a rubber cement thinner, apply it to both parts and then use gap filling superglue. Works to etch the surface so the glue will stick and the gap filler, well, fills any gaps. or Us Goo, sold in model train stores, it's a contact rubber cement. Clean each part and then put some Goo on each piece put them together, take them apart, wait 30 seconds and put them back together. Neither of these is perfect but the work okay. For soft plastic figures there are not really any good choices. Good luck. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
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| sillypoint | 21 May 2020 8:16 p.m. PST |
link My experience is the glues that work like "contact glue" where you may need to apply to both surfaces, let dry to tacky stage, then press together. |
| Vintage Wargaming | 21 May 2020 10:41 p.m. PST |
I live in hope of a glue called UHU HO/OO |
bobspruster  | 22 May 2020 4:34 a.m. PST |
You could try "welding" the pieces together: Insert a bit of hot metal between the two pieces and let the melted plastic join. Helps if you have three hands. |
| bsrlee | 22 May 2020 4:36 a.m. PST |
There is a 'glue' sold by a model railway supplier in Australia that will weld even vinyl as well as dissimilar plastics, branded 'Tetra' – I get mine from Berg's Hobbies in Parramatta (Sydney). It slowly evaporates even in a glass bottle with a metal cap! I don't know if it can be legally posted internationally. |
| Kropotkin303 | 22 May 2020 6:02 a.m. PST |
May not be too helpful, but here is a website dedicated to gluing different materials together Stick This to That thistothat.com/index.shtml |
| Pan Marek | 22 May 2020 8:34 a.m. PST |
In the states, the company Loctite makes a glue that is designed to bond all plastics. I've used it on soft plastic, and it works. See link |
| MajorB | 22 May 2020 9:29 a.m. PST |
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| jhancock | 22 May 2020 12:49 p.m. PST |
The Loctite product is CA/Super Glue, but it includes an activator that uses Heptane to prep the plastic and speed the setting time as noted above. I also use the Loctite activator and CA for soft plastics and it seems to work better than other options for me. |
| Widowson | 22 May 2020 5:00 p.m. PST |
Does any of these work better than 2-art epoxy? |
| Markconz | 22 May 2020 11:17 p.m. PST |
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goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.
