Hello
Why is it so hard to fix something nowadays?? This was really frustrating!
The gallon milk holder in the regrigerator door was craking and the white plastic rim top popped off.
So before it was completely destroyed and unusable there should be an easy fix?
Now when I was growing up and putting model planes, cars, trucks and monsters together we all used a tube of PolyStyrene Cement. That was just about as common as bubble gum and pretty cheap.
So I went to the craft store AC Moore and found Testers Plastic Cement in a bottle for over $5.00!! No ingredients on the label either!!
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/tes/tes3502.htm?source=froogle&gclid=CLLGo7SB564CFQfe4AodlWmAiw
It smelled like the old stuff but was very watery and does not hold like the good old stuff!!
So then I started really looking. I found Revelle Polystyrene on UK web sites!! What is going on here!!
Then in Washington State I finally found Air Fix Humbrol Polystyrene cement for $1.49 !!
http://www.shopatron.com/products/productdetail/part_number=AE4021/359.2.1.1
So I sent for it and just tried it out today. It came in the familiar tube, looks like the same consistancy, the smell is pungent too!
It does say polystyrene on the Label so it sure looks like the real McCoy!!
Then I tried it out, you have to apply it to both sides so it will properly fuse together. I held it for 15 mins and it stayed together!
We will see?
I know Testers also has plastic cement in a tube for models but it does not say Polystyrene Cement? Is that a bad word these days?
Does anyone else have polystyrene cement these days?? Why is it so hard to get?
See pics
Why is it so hard to fix something nowadays?? This was really frustrating!
The gallon milk holder in the regrigerator door was craking and the white plastic rim top popped off.
So before it was completely destroyed and unusable there should be an easy fix?
Now when I was growing up and putting model planes, cars, trucks and monsters together we all used a tube of PolyStyrene Cement. That was just about as common as bubble gum and pretty cheap.
So I went to the craft store AC Moore and found Testers Plastic Cement in a bottle for over $5.00!! No ingredients on the label either!!
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/tes/tes3502.htm?source=froogle&gclid=CLLGo7SB564CFQfe4AodlWmAiw
It smelled like the old stuff but was very watery and does not hold like the good old stuff!!
So then I started really looking. I found Revelle Polystyrene on UK web sites!! What is going on here!!
Then in Washington State I finally found Air Fix Humbrol Polystyrene cement for $1.49 !!
http://www.shopatron.com/products/productdetail/part_number=AE4021/359.2.1.1
So I sent for it and just tried it out today. It came in the familiar tube, looks like the same consistancy, the smell is pungent too!
It does say polystyrene on the Label so it sure looks like the real McCoy!!
Then I tried it out, you have to apply it to both sides so it will properly fuse together. I held it for 15 mins and it stayed together!
We will see?
I know Testers also has plastic cement in a tube for models but it does not say Polystyrene Cement? Is that a bad word these days?
Does anyone else have polystyrene cement these days?? Why is it so hard to get?
See pics