I recently received the Mega Mosquito (with the ultra mini brute Mosquito) as a gift. As I was assembling the Mosquitow (3 fins and nose cone) I usually use epoxy as probably most of you do. But the fit was quite tite.
So I dug around a box and found some old testors modeling glue for wood models. I put a thin layer of this on the inside of the paper tube, and the normal Testors plastic model cement on the nose cone and promptly twisted the to pieces together until they developed a drag.
To my surprise it was quite a good glue joint.
I tried it again on a larger size body tube and an old nose cone and let it set up for 48 hours. Then tried to disassemble the joint.
The results were that the paper seperated at the saturation point. The nose cone will take quite some work to make it usable again.
Just a little food for thought I'd share.
So I dug around a box and found some old testors modeling glue for wood models. I put a thin layer of this on the inside of the paper tube, and the normal Testors plastic model cement on the nose cone and promptly twisted the to pieces together until they developed a drag.
To my surprise it was quite a good glue joint.
I tried it again on a larger size body tube and an old nose cone and let it set up for 48 hours. Then tried to disassemble the joint.
The results were that the paper seperated at the saturation point. The nose cone will take quite some work to make it usable again.
Just a little food for thought I'd share.