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What glue is impervious to lacquer thinner?

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What glue is impervious to lacquer thinner?
Posted by Chrisk-k on Monday, March 30, 2015 6:03 PM

It seems lacquer thinner can remove CA.  What glue is impervious to lacquer thinner?

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Posted by CN Spots on Monday, March 30, 2015 11:50 PM

Plastic resin glue is "resistant" to lacquer thinner but not impervious.  I doubt any adhesive can stand up to it for long.

MEK melts the plastic pieces together so technically there's no glue to be destroyed by lacquer thinner.

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 8:50 AM

There are primers that withstand lacquer, so priming a completed model is one way to paint with lacquer.  Also, I find a hot lacquer usually affects the styrene if the model before it affects the glue.

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Posted by Chrisk-k on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:26 PM

I'm trying to glue the tip of an interdental brush to a syringe needle to make an airbrush cleaner that can easily go inside an airbrush (Don's airbrush article mentions this).

I'll use lacquer thinner to clean my ABs and I don't want the tip of an interdental brush to fall off inside my ABs!

Because the amount of lacquer thinner needed to clean ABs is very small, I guess it's OK to use CA, but I'm not 100% sure.

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Posted by goldhammer on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:01 PM

Epoxy might hold up a little better than CA for the time in thinner.

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:09 AM

Anyone know what CA debonder is (chemical)?

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Posted by P mitch on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:35 AM

nitromethane, dimethyl sulfoxide, and methylene chloride all have an effect. Acetone (nail varnish remover) works well and is cheaper/easier to get hold of with out a licence

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Posted by ejhammer on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:40 AM

MSDS says Dimethylformamide, whatever that is.

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