Tenax-7R sentiment

Tom is right...............i have no noticeable side effects..........(with one eye twitching, head snapping to the side occasionally with no control). Chris and I are fine!!LOL

QUOTE: Originally posted by saltydog been there done that!! later.

C'mon david... ya wanna look cool huh? Look, Chris tried it and HE's ok!!! ::nudging Chris's motionless body with my foot:: Right Chris????

---Tom---

LOL.............good for plastic.........not good for human consumption!! been there done that!! later.

taste it and find out.... go on I dare ya!

I'm from redneck world too. The biggest night club in the county is called Cowboys. Actually, that might be the only night club in the county. I've only gone twice and one of those times was only to sell the house band a new bass rig. That bass equipment went from a metal band (me) to a country band.

I keep buying Ambroid at the hobby shop. They have Tenax there too. I never have tried it. Every time I'm at the glue shelf, I wonder what Tenax is like.

LOL Mike!! i could possibly be friend!! i made plenty of Yankee friends when in the Navy. later.

Well I am suprised they haven't run me out of town on the next train out... I don't own a truck, not only that my SUV is Japanese! The only type of adornment is the Navy hitch cover I put on the trailer hitch when the boat is up for the winter...

Don't dip,chew.smoke... don't have a belt buckle the siz of a dinner plate... it goes on and on... funny thing is 3/4 of the town is made of of this... the rest is middle class refinery workers, teachers etc... and people like George Foreman and Yao Min (gotta real ritzy subdivision up on the lake a lotta big whigs have weekend houses at... I think Dan Rather has one too... too stuffy for me in that neighborhood)

I proudly walk a thin line down the center of these two ends of the spectrum... which makes me ... a wierdo here haha....

Chris,

You sound like a full-blown Yankee to me bubba.
You sure you aren't from CA?

Mike

thats funny!!LOL no junk cars in my yard either........that seems to be an important status thing for rednecks.......LOL. i have a muffler on all my vehicles..........no glass packs and such.........no silouette of deer horns pasted to my back glass.........no gun racks in my truck........i do have a 4 wheel drive truck though, so i'm not completely immune to the pull of redneckism..........mine is more for function than show..........don't own a pair of cut off blue jeans that are super short...........don't live in a trailor (no offense to anyone who does, it just seems that in my part of the world, rednecks prefer trailors). and i don't try to build any type of structure onto my home and not finish it. LOL.........just a short list of things that exclude me from being a full blown redneck. later.

QUOTE: Originally posted by saltydog LOL i was born and raised here, but i've never fit in with the locals much. LOL later.

you and I are a lot alike then... the reason I made that comment is they have this beautiful B-36 hanging right when you enter my LHS... decalled with NASCAR stickers...

sounds good enough for Jeff Foxworthy!!!

no offence taken friend!! i'm not really a redneck anyway, i have all my teeth, don't own a firearm, bow and arrows, belt buckle, and i haven't modified my ride in any form or fashion, don't chew / dip tobacco, can't stand to fish, hunt, or go camping, don't race or talk/know much about engines, and don't even keep up with NASCAR!!!LOL i was born and raised here, but i've never fit in with the locals much. LOL later.

QUOTE: Originally posted by saltydog QUOTE: backwards redneck HEYYY!! i resemble that remark!!LOL

Lol! Believe me that was not an insult... I live in the land of Ford F-350 duallies and stetsons here...

QUOTE: backwards redneck

HEYYY!! i resemble that remark!!LOL there is no danger in glueing yourself to the kit with tenax or ambroid, as it only welds plastic, not skin. there is nothing sticky about the stuff, only toxic enough to melt styrene together. later.

Thanks Chris! I appreciate it... I don't imagine that would sit well with the boss come Monday... <fade to early morning scene, I am on the phone to work> ::ring:: ::ring:: "this is Tom... I can't come to work because I have an AV-8B stuck to my finger..." of course she wouldn't know what that is, so it might just work... hmmmm.... (planning my next 'mental health' day...)

I will probably go out and order one of those capillary thingies tonight because I know these backwards redneck HS's around here won't have one... not within driving distance anyway... I need some resin for this kit anyway, I don't like the cockpit even though I am building it for grins... (if they make it)

Later friend!

Tom --- A group build of one. (I need to make me a graphic for that, just like the Army bumper sticker)

Tom, be careful bubba, as tenax and ambroid both can wick under your finger while you have the death grip in place, and you'll have a nice finger print on your kit!! its happened to me on plenty of occasions, pain in the neck to sand out too!! you need a touch-n-flow applicator though, that is definetly the way to apply the stuff. i have 2, and have began to alternate them, i'll stick one in the bottle and use the other until the one i'm using is out, then, place the empty one in the bottle and use the other one thats full. beats the heck out of using the stuff for mouth wash.LOL later.

QUOTE: Originally posted by saltydog what sh sh should i do with the b b bottle!! do i need to start a scrap book?!!

Chris.... put down the cute stickers and construction paper airplane model cutouts and walk towards us man... you can do it!!! you're stronger than that!!!

::rolling eyes:: you sounded like my wife for a sec with that scrapbook thing... But that's how I get away with spending so much on models... she gets to come to hobby lobby with me and browse the scrapbook section... and the LHS is right next door to a scrapbook place (you think MODELS are an expensive hobby???? ) So it all works out... I dont say a word about the scrapbooks... she lets me build my models...

Ok, I haven't made to the only LHS in the area to carry Tenax (you'd think I lived in the third world by the shortage of modelling paraphenalia around here, no more MM Acryl, JUST got Tenax in stock etc...) I did get a bottle of Ambroids though.... WOW! I like it... I think tomorrow I might go the extra distance and get the Tenax and check it out too... Let's just say my eyes lit up as I gently swabbed the ambroids on and watched it evaporate.... then.... slowly after 10 seconds... I let up my death grip on the seat side of the the Harrier AV8-B I am building now.... and BAM!!!! it was welded solid!!!!!

I have been using a capillary action MM solvent type cement.... gone are the ocassional glitch where I touched the side of the fuselage and didn't realize I had got a bit on my finger... gone is the endless sanding of shiny cement from the seams...

It's just too much for words... who needs Viagra when ya got Ambroids??? I guess Tenax must be the Cialis of this stuff so I better go get some tomorrow...

I got a little spring in mys step after using this stuff.. (and no... I haven't been drinking...er... siphoning the stuff like Chris, so that's not why)

QUOTE: How about getting scolded by me instead? Don't ever do that again young man!

Are you gonna make me go and hunt down that post where you told Gip that you do the same thing? Both of you STOP IT!!

Funny, after all these years of modeling, and having gone through all those bottles of differnent liquid cements, I've bought Tenax, then let it evaporate or get lost without using it. Now I keep a bottle of it stuck in a lump of clay on my tiny work table (I live in Brooklyn, remember) on the right, and on the left, sitting in a palette cup clipped to a tile, I have a bottle of the latest incarnation of MicroWeld. They have differnent properties, and I use them for different types of parts. But I was afraid of Tenax for a long time, having heard horror stories about its unstoppable solvant power, which turned out to be bunk. It evaporates too fast to destroy much. The MicroWeld does not evaporate so fast, so I tend to use it on long seams, then back it up with some Tenax. It works really well that way.
Tom

Hey, guys -
I went to the hardware store and bought a bottle of Plaskem Plumbers Fluid - a P.V.C. pipe joining compound - it's MEK - methyl ethyl ketone. $4 for 250ml - about a fifth of the price of Plastruct Bondene or Tenax......and man, does this stuff bond styrene!
Someone else has posted about this stuff - and they're right.
Just don't get careless when you use the stuff!!

Chris........ever try an old #1 paint brush for applying your liquid cocktail ?
.....& consider yourselves scolded by me as well.....
a better way = p a t i e n c e.........LOL

Only Salty... only salty. use a brush to put it on if you gonna suck that stuff up sheesh

don't worry friend!! in all seriousness though, it kinda tasted good!!LOL had a sweet taste. nothin' i'd pour over pancakes or anything, but fairly sweet.

anybody got a good way to refill the applicator if capillary action is not fast enough? later.

PS. DON'T SUCK TENAX-7R INTO YOUR APPLICATOR LIKE A STAW....ITS NOT A GOOD THING.

QUOTE: Originally posted by saltydog Mikey no, i haven't been sniffin' it, but i did get a tad in my mouth the other day while trying to "suck" it up into the applicator like a straw!!! please don't tell styrene ok?!! i surely don't want to get scolded by him!!LOL

How about getting scolded by me instead?
Don't ever do that again young man!

Mike

Mikey no, i haven't been sniffin' it, but i did get a tad in my mouth the other day while trying to "suck" it up into the applicator like a straw!!! please don't tell styrene ok?!! i surely don't want to get scolded by him!!LOL i survived, and, i don't have any a/dlnf ; orzdt[pgoisdlk./iv/t ma'uo2LCIV4BFJ..............................sorry............side effects either!! i spat for about 30 minutes so i don't think any got down the old gullet. later.

Chris,

Have you been sniffing the Tenax Bubba?
Throw it away and move on to another bottle.
How dare these guys try and compare Ambroid to Tenax. [:0]
That's sacrilege I tell you!

Mike

Go to the LHS and get another bottle of Tenax. Pour half into the first bottle and just keep on using it. Some day you'll be able to say that you've been on your first bottle of Tenax for the past 8 years.

DANG!!! a half a case?!! LOL

hey rik.........i gotta a bottle of Ambroid dude!! its about half full..........or half empty......half full.

Yep just finished my last of 2 bottles on tenex......but surprise, surprise, surprise....I get to open my new box of 12 bottles of ambroid pro weld (savoring the thought)