CA soak? Like super glue? Wouldn't that be expensive for large nose cones? Where can I get glazing putty? Would autozone carry that? I swear I have never seen such a thing at Walmart.
CA soak? Like super glue? Wouldn't that be expensive for large nose cones?
CA soak? Like super glue? Wouldn't that be expensive for large nose cones? Where can I get glazing putty? Would autozone carry that? I swear I have never seen such a thing at Walmart.
You guys are going way overboard on this.
I just squeeze a bit of Elmer's Yellow Carpentry glue into the bottle cap from a Two-Litter bottle of Pepsi or Coke... add a few drops of water from the tap, and stir until I have a thin slurry of glue. Then I take a cheap kid's paint by numbers paint brush and dip it into the slurry, and just paint it onto the balsa nosecone, or the fins, or any wooden part to coat it. The first layer will raise the grain, but then sanding it down to a smoother coat... prepares it for the second coating with more slurry. More sanding, and then another coating if it needs it. But after that, there's not much need to sand to get it smooth.
I find this much cheaper than going out and buying a separate wood sealer or primer.
I'd say you need to look at my tutorial on doing it. You want to use super thin CA. Buying it in larger containers is cheaper than 1 ounce at a time.
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Jim
I don't have aeroglass. I have minwax sanding sealer. Work about the same?
I started work on two BNC-60AH nose cones tonight. Using two different methods on them. One is something I learned recently using Elmer's wood filler. Darn wood feels like plastic once it's done. It's great. I'm trying K'Tesh's CA method on the other. Granted, it's my first try, but so far it's not turning out as well as the wood filler option. But I'm not giving up yet. By tomorrow night they'll both be finished one way or the other and I'll know what works for me.
K'Tesh, what do you do for the shoulder? Just leave it plain or do you CA is also? If it's CA, what sanding method do you recommend? I want to give your method every chance before I decide which to use primarily.
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