ZeroGPrints
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Hello people. I am wondering what glue you use for low and mid power rockets. I personally use E6000 and super glue.
Im not asking because i want to know what glue to use, im just asking because im wondering what glue people use.You may want to use the search functionality for this and read the enormous amount of glue threads for a few weeks/months/years
Hmm, this has the potential to turn into a glue thread.Hello people. I am wondering what glue you use for low and mid power rockets. I personally use E6000 and super glue.
I like the idea of using Titebond Quick-and-Thick for fillets, I might have to get some myself.Hmm, this has the potential to turn into a glue thread.
(Predominantly Titebond II for wood and paper, Titebond Quick-and-Thick for fillets, sometimes epoxy for couplers and/or motor mounts, CA mostly just for hardening. Can't think of when I'd ever want to use E6000).
It’s by *far* the most common use for that stuff.I like the idea of using Titebond Quick-and-Thick for fillets, I might have to get some myself.
I use E6000 on my foam RC airplanes. I don't see it as a good rocket glue.Hmm, this has the potential to turn into a glue thread.
(Predominantly Titebond II for wood and paper, Titebond Quick-and-Thick for fillets, sometimes epoxy for couplers and/or motor mounts, CA mostly just for hardening. Can't think of when I'd ever want to use E6000).
I use E6000 on my foam RC airplanes. I don't see it as a good rocket glue.
E6000 has worked great so far for me.I looked at E6000. Found it to fail easily because the flexibility allows it to concentrate stress at an edge and peel. I mostly just use what's left over from that experiment for glue-whipping the ends of Kevlar lines so they don't fray.
I am overcome with curiosity. Exactly what do you use it for, and why? I can't think of an occasion (at least for standard building tasks) where it would be the best option.E6000 has worked great so far for me.
I got some E6000 from hobby lobby when I first got in to rocketry, and since then I have used it for building all my rockets. Worked great on my Hi-Flyer XL, and Boosted Bertha. Currently building my Mean Machine, and Star orbiter with it (I used epoxy for the fin fillets).I am overcome with curiosity. Exactly what do you use it for, and why? I can't think of an occasion (at least for standard building tasks) where it would be the best option.
The fumes aren't that bad, super glue is much worse.In my experience E6000 has horrible fumes and gives them off for quite a long time.
Are you saying you use it to construct motor mounts? For tube couplers? That is almost impossible for me to imagine.I got some E6000 from hobby lobby when I first got in to rocketry, and since then I have used it for building all my rockets. Worked great on my Hi-Flyer XL, and Boosted Bertha. Currently building my Mean Machine, and Star orbiter with it (I used epoxy for the fin fillets).
What's wrong with using E6000 for those things? Worked great so far.Are you saying you use it to construct motor mounts? For tube couplers? That is almost impossible for me to imagine.
I first used it on my Hi-flyer XL. Had two flights with E12s and four flights with E35s. Unfortunately it landed in a tree on its 6th flight, and I was unable to recover it.@ZeroGPrints
I'm with @neil_w on this one. Details please. Which rockets ? Which joints ? How many flights ? Present condition ? We'd be lost without glue threads !
Hmm, I would start off with: messy, sticky, *smelly*, slow. I mean, it's an adhesive that will hold stuff together (I have some and use it for non-rocketry occasionally) but it is in no way optimal for gluing wood and paper together.What's wrong with using E6000 for those things? Worked great so far.
I don’t think using hot glue for a high power rocket is a good idea.Hot glue. Dries so fast.
Think I'll use it on my future L1 build, too.
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