RMweb Premium NCB Posted July 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2019 Copydex diluted is good for ballasting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 12 hours ago, Il Grifone said: I can never get the stuff to stick (again it must be me!). The typical CA glues packaged for domestic use seem to have been changed early in this century. I think they were changed from high strength to low-strength not-really-glue-at-all formula to enhance safety and to ward off lawsuits. I now buy only CA product marketed for industrial use - Everbuild do one - and this seems to actually contain glue. Also, the CA glue I'm now using seems not to set quickly or properly in high humidity. This is very surprising as folklore says that the stuff is activated by moisture and one should blow on it to speed up setting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 On 13/07/2019 at 22:29, RLWP said: Ahh, glue nostalgia For your consideration, I offer Copydex and Cow Gum Richard Do you know how late Cow Gum was produced? Mr. Cow had a works making the stuff in south London (Blackheath?) early in the 20th century, and possiblybefore. And the firm had PO wagons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 How odd - I have absolutely no trouble sticking my fingers together with almost any cheap bottle of CA Occasionally it is handy for making models too Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 1 minute ago, Guy Rixon said: And the firm had PO wagons. Pictures needed! Cow Gum was the adhesive of choice in the Technical Publications department when I was a student. Part of the fun was forming a huge ball of the used stuff Richard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted July 15, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2019 10 hours ago, NCB said: Copydex diluted is good for ballasting. I've stuck track down with it too, holds it well enough and isn't impossible to move should you need to. I also thought it might deaden the sound a bit but it doesn't seem to make much difference there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Cow Gum was, it seems, only part of the wide-ranging and creative Cow Empire https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/P._B._Cow_and_Co Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainwright1 Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 An interesting thread with some fairly local connections. I recall using Cow Gun in the mid-eighties for mounting materials, maps etc, to some display panels for an exhibition. Also seem to recall that it went mouldy after a while and stained through the displays, obviously due to it being a natural organic material. Always found the original Evo-stik contact adhesive very good for woodwork assembly and sticking on Formica laminates. I also use it for sticking brick paper onto scratch-built card buildings using the wall paper system. Coat both surfaces, allow to start going off, apply brick paper. It gives you time to straighten things up and any excess can be rubbed of cleanly after it few minutes when it goes rubbery. RB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 21 hours ago, PatB said: As I recall, those applicator caps on glue bottles worked for about 30 seconds when new, and then clogged irretrievably for ever more. A tradition carried on by cyano-acrylate nowadays.. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 43 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Cow Gum was, it seems, only part of the wide-ranging and creative Cow Empire https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/P._B._Cow_and_Co I'm impressed: they survived contact with the 'Unacceptable face of capitalism', as Ted Heath described Slater-Walker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 59 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Cow Gum was, it seems, only part of the wide-ranging and creative Cow Empire https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/P._B._Cow_and_Co Now I want a Vacca Racquet Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relaxinghobby Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Glow glue with red top applicator on top of a triangular bottle was a gum good for paper and cardboard bot would leave the paper wrinkly. Copydex is a rubber glue I think and dries flexible, I prefer it for sticking ballast down rather than PVA with sets the track hard like concrete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marly51 Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 On 13/07/2019 at 22:29, RLWP said: Ahh, glue nostalgia For your consideration, I offer Copydex and Cow Gum Richard Ah yes ‘Copydex for gluing textiles and leather and no early commercial artist/graphic designer would have been able to produce ‘paste-up’ finished artwork without ‘Cow Gum’! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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