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So come all ye young men who are building castles! (gluing tip)
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<p>[quote user="Cisco Kid"] These are great for applying Proweld or solvent types of glue. Careful, you don't really need to depress the plunger. Just fill a little bit with the plunger and lay the syringe sideways on a little block of wood until you need it. Then just lift it and run it along a seam. Careful, solvent will drip out on a surface though. But this is more accurate than the brush that comes in the bottle and a useful technique in some spots.[/quote]</p><p>I have the cheek to quote myself...well, for a little correction. The solvent isn't that dangerously free flowing, so I have to push the plunger a little to get a drop of solvent to the tip if the syringe has been sitting for a while. If I don't push too much, there is also little danger of a drip. So it is more controllable than I first suggested.</p><p>Anyhooo, no Mr. B. I don't think anything thicker than Proweld or Tenax type solvents will work well.</p><p>I was able to use the syringes a bit for some rubber cement that I injected behind some bubbles in a background poster. The cement would move through only with tremendous pressure. White glue will move through, esp if thinned a little. But the real problem with the viscous liquids, is loading up the syringe. You can't draw them up with the plunger, so you have to load them from the top with the plunger removed, and that is a real mess because the barrel of the syringe is so small that air is trapped too easily.....really hard to drizzle a thread of glue down into the barrel without blocking the opening. I wouldn't even bother. There are some good bellows type applicators from Micro Tools that I use.</p><p>Oh, my Walmart is in Canada. So if I ask politely I can get the nice little pharmacist to sell me some packs. But your notion was on my mind so I wear a shirt and tie when I buy them (no kidding).</p>
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