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Connecting Rubber Tracks for Armor

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Connecting Rubber Tracks for Armor
Posted by CodyJ on Sunday, December 7, 2014 4:18 PM

Hi.  I have a question for you Tankers out there.  I have a 1/72 KVII that I am building.  I have used rubber tracks before and was always able to connect the ends with heat or Liquid CA (Super Glue).  This set can't be connected by heat (No located points tall enough) and the CA just flakes off....  Any suggestions would be awesome!   Thank you!  Big Smile

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  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Sunday, December 7, 2014 7:58 PM

A little tiny tot stapler from Swingline at the local stationary store or the local Walmart,

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Posted by jibber on Sunday, December 14, 2014 10:12 AM

Cody I'm not sure why that happens but I've also had issues in the past, any time I have rubber bands now I wash then first with regular soap and that seems to help, but if they're just to stubborn get one of Rob's staplers. They always work. Terry

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Posted by jibber on Sunday, December 14, 2014 10:21 AM

Cody I forgot I also have a tube of Loctite for plastic and vinyl, thats seems to work fine when others don't.

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  • From: Chicago area
Posted by modelmaker66 on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:38 PM

you can also use a product called shoe goo on vinyl. It is for shoe repair. it dries clear.

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  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:46 AM

It is likely that the tracks are vinyl rather than rubber.  Vinyl is indeed hard to glue, but there are products, including the stuff Modelmaker66 mentioned that will do it. One thing is to clean area thoroughly before gluing- vinyl seems to leak an oily stuff onto surface.  Iso alcohol does a pretty good job of cleaning it.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by CodyJ on Saturday, January 3, 2015 7:39 PM

Sorry for the delay in response guys.  I want to thank you very very much for the input.  

I asked a guy just out of curiosity at my Local Hobby Store and another customer overheard my question.  He claimed to have success with Gorilla Glue Brand Super Glue.  I was able to find it easily at the store.  It was cheap so I thought I'd try it first and if it didn't work, go down the list of other suggestions.   I cleaned the tracks as per your guys suggestion and gave it a try.  It had a medium consistency and was very inconspicuous.  Sure enough it bonded extremely strong.  I had to really stretch the tracks to get them over the wheels and it didn't show any signs of breaking.  Definitely something I'd recommend.  

Again thanks so much for your responses.  I hadn't thought of cleaning them but I guarantee that helped a lot!

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  • From: Grass Valley, CA
Posted by seaphoto on Friday, January 9, 2015 3:05 PM

In the past I used a small sewing needle and thread to hold them together, usually because I blew the melting together process LOL.  Two or three stitches and then line up the seam under a road wheel seems to work just fine.

Kurt Greiner

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