Good to the last drop, my foot!! Tamiya thin

tempestjohnny

I open a new bottle and when it's low enough I pour the remnants of the first one in

 

or, buy a bottle of Tamiya airbrush cleaner (with the pink cap) and keep the glue bottle full by topping it off with the airbrush cleaner (it's the same stuff as the extra thin, but cheaper,ounce for ounce...)

this, of course, is after you already have an almost empty bottle of TET that has been turned into a bottle of spruce goo filler!

    I clean my CA applicator by letting it dry completely then take a lighter and burn the residue off. Wipe with paper towel and its back in service.

Mopar Madness

I've been using this stuff for years and never realized that! Thank you for the tip. 

No problem Chad.  I learned about it from somebody else on this forum.  I love that little pointy brush in the Tamiya bottle.

Eaglecash867

The brush has a telescoping feature.  Just be really careful how far you pull it to extend it.

 

goldhammer88

The needle fork is also nice for applying CA too.  I made several sizes.  Got an assortment package of needles, and a length of 1/4" dowel.  Cut to length that's comfortable to hold.  I rounded off the other end and sanded smooth with some 320

 

I also use mine mainly for CA.  I do not use solvent glue much- only for long seams or when I need really slow setting time to perfectly position the joint.  Only problem using it for CA is it takes frequent cleaning. Solvent glue just evaporates, but some CA always builds up on the fork. I clean the needle fork by cutting it off with my scraping knife.

The needle fork is also nice for applying CA too.  I made several sizes.  Got an assortment package of needles, and a length of 1/4" dowel.  Cut to length that's comfortable to hold.  I rounded off the other end and sanded smooth with some 320

I just made a new needle tool that I use for thin glues.  I wanted a bigger eye for some joints on my current build that has some long joints, and a bigger eye would mean fewer dips per joint.  I still had the package of needles I had used in my older tools, and found one with a bigger eye.

Mounted it in a piece of dowel and used  a cutoff wheel to grind off the end of the eye.  Painted it a different color than the old one so I could easily tell the large eye tool from the small one.

ill prob do a combination of both as i dont care for its applicator brush to begin with. Thanks.

Eaglecash;

 Yeah for sure!

Buy a new bottle and pour some of it into the old bottle till the brush can reach it,or just fill it up.

...or he can just use the telescoping feature of the Tamiya cement brush that I mentioned in the second post.  No need to re-invent the wheel when it already exists and is right there.

Hi;

      When using  my favorite liquids it's always a fact that at times they will get to low for the brush. What I do is this. I wipe off the brush and then mark it's joint location with the lid fixture. Then Pull it off. Then I re-insert it to a snug fit leaving the mark visible so I can see how far I had to re-locate it. Sometimes after two such moves it won't stick in the lid anymore.

      Then I use a small fine point brush or Cut off sewing needle for application. The cutting of the eye of a needle is still one of the best applicatore for whatever glue. The great thing about them is at your sewing department you can get some that are quite long ,but thin. Perfect for a glue applicator when cut. Plus you can stick the bare end in a small shaped handle of basswood! Cause, remember the bare end has become the hand end which is also the Point of the whole thing!

I often use a small fork I made, for both solvent glues and thin ca.  I made it by grinding off part of a large sewing needle with my dremel, then jamming the point into a piece of quarter inch dowel.

I use MEK as my cement of choice.   (Yes I know that some of you cannot get it due to the nanny-state). I refill my tamiya glue bottle from a hardware store sized can.  Have a funnel with a spout sized to fit the bottle opening and do it in the garage or outside to minimize fumes from spillage.   In use MEK fumes from the small bottle opening are minimal

I simply use a clean paintbrush.  Any cheap water color brush will do.  I like it better than the brush in the bottle, which doesn't pick up very much solvent per dip.

The brush has a telescoping feature.  Just be really careful how far you pull it to extend it.