What’s the difference? Thanks.
Squadron White is claimed to be a finer grain than Green, although I could never see much difference. I don’t use either anymore, but I used to use the White.
Regards, Rick
What do you use Rick?.. I’m always looking for better alternatives.
Based on a tip posted a few months ago by Jeff Herne, I tried a product called Porc-A-Filler, available at Home Depot. It’s intended to be used as a chip filler for Porcelain, but it works great with both Styrene & Resin. It dries fairly quickly with very little shrinkage & is easy to sand & sands smooth. Really great stuff.
Regards, Rick
A while back I looked for Porc-A-Filler at the local Home Depot & Lowes and they didn’t carry it. I think I’ll look again, it sounded like a good tip.
Exactly. I use the white exclusively.
Pops
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Never mind running back out to Home Depot ! I did that too ! Been There and DONE that ! Good luck finding the bathroom there, much less a stock clerk that knows what they heck they have in the store. I tried the same thing at my local home depot. I searched and serched the bathroom/plumbing isles, for hours! Anyone I found in an orange apron looked at me like they wanted to ask me to HELP them find their way out of the store !
I tried some internet serches to no avail, But thanks to this thread I saw I had been spelling Filler as Fill. I put the right words in this time ane Whalllla ! I have an order on its way! Ive been wanting/trying to get that stuff ever since I saw the same FSM Reader Tip suggestion Myself!!
I started using the green filler in a previous lifetime and switched to white a few years back. Recently, I have been using a small tube of BONDO body filler putty I bought in the auto parts section of Wal Mart. It works pretty well, except the acetone in it tends to attack the styrene, so you have to be careful of spreading it around too much.
Sounds like I am going to have to try some of that Porc-a-filler stuff. I agree with mgtaylor about the uselessness of the clerks in Home Despot. If you cannot find something yourself, don’ expect much help from them.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
Rule of thumb for home depot and Lowes or similar: all floor help’s knowledge of process and material is OJT. When appling for a job the companies appear to be only interested in your psychological profile and how you will deal with your fellow workers (or rat on them as the case may be) then they are in how much knowledge of the trades you posess.
For the most part floor help is only good for getting the stuff you can’t reach or putting your order together.
This is not true of all cases but in general. Take a look at thier job applications and pay scale and you’ll see what I mean.
BOT: I also like the “white” and it does seem finer in “grain” than the green when sanding. But melted plastic (plastic chips in an old glue bottle) works great as well.
Darwin, the acetone in Bondo can’t be worse than the toluol in Squadron Putty, unless it just more concentrated somehow. Toluol, or toluene, is the same ingredient in plastic cement, and makes the putty bond to plastic. (Many years ago I used to work on barges carrying chemical, including toluene up the Mississippi River, and it is some nasty stuff.) Try sanding some Squadron putty on plastic before it is completely dry and watch the plastic roll up on the sandpaper. And put too much Squadron Green/White on your part and watch it sag and distort from the “airplane glue” mixed in it.
Still, in certain rare situations, nothing beats good old Squadron Green, except like the others, I now use the white. The grain does seem finer.
TOM
[#offtopic [:D]There’s always ACE. I prefer the old guys at ACE over HD any day. I only go to HD when I know what I need and I know I do not need help.
Funny story about HD. The other day I asked for help in finding something… asked two (clueless) people who were very personable, but hopelessly worthless. Finally, when no one was looking I jumped on one of their computers and found the location and quantity of what I was looking for in their system. I think HD should have more of a self-sevice policy for their customers and provide Read-only access to their local inventory systems.
The local HD here carries Poc-A-Filler. I found it on a shelf in the plumbing area.
Regards, Rick
I have been using poc a filler for a while now and I got it at HD
Thad
Have you guys tried milliput? Does it work? I´ve only tried Squadron white and it´s not always so great. I will look for that porc stuff.
Yep, I prefer ACE or my local hardware shop as well. I treat Loews and HD the same as you
Yep, but it is really better suited for sculting since it dries rock hard and is not the easiest to sand flush. But someone else may have had a better experience with it.