Glue Applicators

Hi David,

if you're looking for something to apply liquid poly, what's wrong with a paint brush? If thick CA, then a cocktail stick? The precision poly-type applicators are precise enough, but I don't like the cement they contain. Thin CA is a little more probematic, but I've had some success with a thin sewing needle held in a pin vice. You can sand the excess off once it's dried.

I'm not srue about insuiln syringes as glue applictors. For thin CA, the needle would clog after one use, and for liquid poly, the inside of the barrel, and the rubber bung on the plunger, would melt.  They're great, however, for applying superglue accelerator, and I use them all the time for this purpose.

Cheers,

Chris.

I've played around with an insulin syringe as suggested and found the results to be unacceptable [to me].

The Touch-n-Flow is a very fine diameter pipette.   The contents are retained in the pipette until it is touched to a surface to be glued.  Capillary action draws the glue out of the pipette.   Air pressure is minimal on the fine bore of the pipette so the glue doesn't gush out.

With a syringe, if you use the plunger to dispense the glue you need a firm and steady hand to dispense the glue out of the needle.  If you don't use the plunger, air pressure enters the larger bore and causes the glue to flow more quickly than expected.

Not to say that a fine insulin-type syringe couldn't be used and the technique to dispense finite amounts developed,  but why?  A fine tipped paint brush, 5/0 or smaller, will do the trick as easily.   Dip it in the glue to load and touch it to the seam to be glued.   The glue flows out of the brush and into the joint by capilary action.  

It may also be easier to find such a brush locally, in artist supply shops, than a Touch-n-Flow 

Hi Chris & Ed

I appreciate your input.

I was initially hoping that the fine bore of the needle would restrict the out flow of cement, but air pressure would prevail.

A size 5/0 brush here we come.

Thanks 

David

I use florist wire, and sometimes real thin copper wire, to apply super glue. When the glue builds up, stick the "gluey" end of the wire into some styrofoam or something like, then snip off the tip with wire cutters. The styrofoam keeps the piece of wire from shooting in an unpredictable direction.

I bought a 5/0 natural red sable that I use just for liquid cement.  It works great with Tenax and Pro-Weld.  For CA glue, I usually use wire.