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reklein wrote:I agree with gandy dancer,Hot glue not good for structural gluing. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. It doesn't penetrate wood at all. It would be great for ,say ,gluing the carpet to something though. Don't ask.
larak wrote: I use a glue gun for installing cardboard strips but not a lot else. Those darn little strings of glue that hang about like spiderwebs drive me crazy. I also use adhesive caulk, regular caulk, white glue, a bit of expoy, lots of matt medium and lots of CA. Each has strong and weak points.Whatever works best for you in the situation at hand should be your choice.Karl
I use a glue gun for installing cardboard strips but not a lot else. Those darn little strings of glue that hang about like spiderwebs drive me crazy.
I also use adhesive caulk, regular caulk, white glue, a bit of expoy, lots of matt medium and lots of CA. Each has strong and weak points.Whatever works best for you in the situation at hand should be your choice.
Karl
I definately agree about the little spiderwebs that get everywhere, but all in all it is worth it!
I use it for gluing trees and bushes, not much else.
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ME TOO!!! Plus the dang little strings will wrap up on axles and mechanisms and play hob with your operation. Nonetheless, I still like to use hot glue for scenery and I keep an eye out for strings.
I've used the hot glue gun to:
Build mountains from layers of foam.
Attach "flex-rock" flexible foam rock castings to mountains.
Glue Woodland Scenics Foliage Clusters to mountains
Attach styrene roads on inclines to a foam base.
Attach tunnel portals and retaining walls.
In other words, hot glue is great!
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The low temp glue works great with foam. I tried the high temp sticks and made some pretty big potholes in my foam. I find the glue is really helpful for things like securing brush and trees to hillsides. White Glue takes forever to set up and things end up crooked. With a glue gun, it only takes 10 seconds or so to set and you can get everything just where and how you want it without coming back two hours later and straightening things up.
I may be a newbie, but I have used my trusty hot glue gun to glue my foam to my plywood, the roadbed to the foam, and now the track to the roadbed, and haven't had a bit of trouble with it coming up or off of the other items. The only concerns I have had is if like anyone else, that I have to pull anything up, that there is some work getting it off of the track and roadbed. So, am I the only one using a hot glue gun? Surely not. Thanks guys!
Carl