Toucn-N-Flow... Touch-N-?

plastickjunkie

This is an older post but worth resurrecting. I spoke today with the Touch-N-Flow rep at the IPMS Nats. in Orlando about this problem. He told me that the loading method of the tool has been updated to using a small plastic bottle with a special applicator to load up the glue. If the tool becomes clogged, it's because melted plastic has found it's way into the tip. He said to submerge  the tip in the solvent for a couple of minutes and to attach the small bottle at the open end, squeezing air to clear the clog out. I tried the bottle method and it is a better way to load and drain the tool.

sounds  a Whole Lot Healthier for the user; The idea of sucking in solvent is to reminiscent of siphoning   gas from my dads tractor before a date  and that didn't always work out well

Viper10L, above, has it right.  I have had great success with my TNF, but it can be fussy at times.  I use Tenax, Tamiya Thin Cement, or Plast-I-Weld solvent and it works good, but sometimes it gets a bit frustrating to get in flowing right.  Just takes a bit of practice.

Duster,  I think the directions say to tip the end into the solvent, and let it fill that way.  I'd _never_ suck that stuff up.  It just doesn't taste good.  And to all others, I was NOT using glue, but solvents, like Tenax, Plasti Weld, Same Stuff, etc.  

I had 100% FAIL with the first one, but nearly 100% success with the second one.  The second one did come with the filler bottle, but I find dipping the open end into the bottle of solvent to work well.

Gene Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

 thanks Gene, for the clarification. 

seriously: the idea of the Touch n Flow is a good one and I'll have to add it to the list of equipment to buy as  $$ permits

The metal tube on the plastic bottle screws off  leaving the blue cap on. The open end of the glass tube is inserted into the blue cap and now you can either load up using the vacuum from the plastic bottle or dispensing directly from the plastic bottle to the tube. The product rep tried this method several times and worked like a charm. He even intentionally clogged it by touching the tip into the melted plastic. He put the thin metal tip into the bottle of glue for a few seconds and used the squeeze bottle to clear the clog. Super glue and regular thin glue will clog it. Only thin solvent base glues like their brand and Tenax are to be used.

The only way I can get mine to fill is to suck the glue (Tenax) in. I found out real fast that this stuff tastes worse than gasoline.

If you're going to use the sucking method, I'd definitely get a length of rubber tubing that'll fit over the glass end of the TNF.  That way you have a much longer path to your mouth, and can more-easily watch the fluid migrating into the tool.  

Gene Beaird,

Pearland, Texas