picked up a bottle of tenax r7 and there’s no brush, like testors/others liquid glue, but there is a kinda nozzle but nothing to hold it in place. thx
an old nylon bristled paint brush works good.
pick up a item called touch-N-Flow its a small glass tube
might go thru a lotta those when the get too stiff, brushes. think i might have something. so what’s that plastic cap thingie for? it’s got a pin hole in it, but nothing to keep it on. suppose i could try crazy glue
Find a metal technical/drafting pen. They usually sell for about $5 on e-bay and last forever, virtually unbreakale. If there’s a build up of residue, you can scrape it off with a knife edge. You can also use it to apply accelerator to super glue or any other type of very thin cement.
I use those super-cheap Testor’s small 6-inch white “Paint brushes”–they come three in a pack, and are the same material that the brushes in other glue are. They’re really awful “paint” brushes, but I take the three of them and cut the bristles out so that I get different thicknesses of bristles, allowing me to get different dispersion of glue amounts for various needs. They last forever too.
I use an old paint brush, or you can buy some inexpensive new ones. The glue evaporates off the bristles. Remember this is solvent. It doesn’t really glue the parts together, it melts them and fuses them together. So it’s not really glue. If you don’t keep this stuff capped tight when not in use it will evaporate, just like it will on your applicator brush. Ken
I use a medical syringe. The needle allows me to get into tight places
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The melting or “welding” properties of this stuff is exactly why I use it…the joins on a model put together with this stuff are usually stronger than the plastic itself…on the rare occasion I had to tear something off of a model the plastic around the join broke before the actual join did…
I tend to use more expensive, but “retired” brushes for application…I also use the solvent as a tool rather than as just glue…it is “hot” enough so that if you know how to control it you can smooth out blemishes with it, melt sprue into gaps with it, and even, to a certain degree, sculpt minor details into styrene figures with it…