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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Hints and Tips/Questions about modeling => Topic started by: Ant on October 24, 2020, 06:41:40 PM

Title: Tool help
Post by: Ant on October 24, 2020, 06:41:40 PM: Ive been racking my brain and searching for the tool that is used to dab little blobs of glue..
What is it called and where in the uk can i buy one from ?
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: gcn on October 24, 2020, 07:21:52 PM: Mr glue applicator ?

https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/product/mr-glue-applicator-mr-hobby-gt-57
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: macsporran on October 24, 2020, 09:21:47 PM: Flex-i-file glue applicator?

(or..... Toothpick?)
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: lcarroll on October 24, 2020, 11:53:51 PM: I'm a diehard toothpick fan, never found a better applicator for other then super thin CA where the old modified sewing needle is the weapon of choice.
Cheers,
Lance
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: Alexis on October 25, 2020, 02:02:57 AM: For liquid glues I use the Touch and Flow as Marc has posted and for super glues I go the modified sewing needle . What is handy with the sewing needles is the different sizes of eyelets . With just the tip cut off different sizes of a u- shape gives better control on the amount of glue need .

Terri

PS , check out Hannant's https://www.hannants.co.uk/ (https://www.hannants.co.uk/) . For Tools and other items to help get you going . They are in the UK .
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: RAGIII on October 25, 2020, 04:59:16 AM: Quote from: lcarroll on October 24, 2020, 11:53:51 PM
I'm a diehard toothpick fan, never found a better applicator for other then super thin CA where the old modified sewing needle is the weapon of choice.
Cheers,
Lance

Funny Lance, I was thinking of posting a photo of a toothpick but you beat Me to the idea ::)
RAGIII
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: macsporran on October 25, 2020, 06:19:50 AM: I think you'll find I beat you both to the Toothpick suggestion.😃
Marc

(Marc??? who he, Terri?)
Sandy
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: maddog on October 25, 2020, 07:34:48 AM: Ant, the Glue Looper works really well and is available in varying sizes to suit differing viscosities.
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: Alexis on October 25, 2020, 08:02:42 AM: Quote from: macsporran on October 25, 2020, 06:19:50 AM
I think you'll find I beat you both to the Toothpick suggestion.😃
Marc

(Marc??? who he, Terri?)
Sandy

Sorry Sandy , was thinking of someone else at the time of typing ::)

Terri
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: macsporran on October 25, 2020, 08:42:26 AM: No problem, Terri, serves me right for no name!
S
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: Ant on October 26, 2020, 01:59:35 AM: Thanks everybody....
Toothpick it is to start with....
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: Dave W on October 26, 2020, 09:03:57 AM: A piece of stretched sprue is also useful as a glue applicator.. it can also be sharpened at the end for super glue. Just heat some sprue and stretch it, but keep the thicker shaft as a handle. Toothpicks and sewing needles are my other glue applicators of choice.

Dave Wilson
Gold Coast
Australia
Title: Re: Tool help
Post by: Stuart Malone on October 29, 2020, 03:39:03 AM: Toothpicks and stretched sprue are by far the cheapest and easiest gluing tools available.

I heard about disposable eye liner brushes. You can get them on Amazon, 100 for six or seven USD. I just got some in but haven't tried them yet. I assume they're best used for the thin cements and epoxy, but might work for CA as well. Albeit, maybe only once.

I do like one particular glue looper. It's very long and tapers from the shank end all the way to the tip in a slight arc. The tip itself is open ended, but it's not the Glue Looper 4. The name escapes me now.

I also have two dowels with needles pushed in them, pointy bit first. I then cut the very tip of the eye end off with my dremel, leaving pretty much the same as the looper. Very cheap, easily replaceable, and a bunch of different sizes to suit your needs. There's many variations on this, go to youtube and search 'CA glue applicator'.

Stuart