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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: RC Storick on October 02, 2006, 10:35:39 AM
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I read on the other forum some were having a problem with light weight Spackle. Can you use it? The answer is yes but read carefully. You can only use it in small amounts and if you are going to dope over it You must seal it with thin set CA first or it will bubble. I do it all the time so I know this works!
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Robert,
Yea, that was me. I had a couple of low spots on one fillet (on top, of course) and I was just too lazy to mix up more SuperFil to fill them. So I foolishly put some light weight spakle in the low spots. I did film them with CA, but I suspect I sanded through at some point. Sigh... Live and learn.
Ended up having to dig up the entire fillet, hit it with some catalyzed glazing compound (what I should have done in the first place), sand it out and reshoot the area with paint. Came out fine in the end, but it was a lot of extra work because I was lazy that day.
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What about plastic wood? A nitrocellulose product, right, ambroid with extras added? Kind of smells like that. I've used it quite a bit, it sands decent, sometimes need more than one coat to fill a spot. For small areas with no load, seems to work o.k. I've used it preparing balsa before silkspanning. When sanded out and doped, the silkspan sticks and stays put. Good for the little holes that happen mysteriously. O.k. for me. Used as I said where there's not much load and flex.
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I used it when I was young but there is better stuff and not so heavy now.
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A very , very olde but effective filler for some dings is to take Ambroid, add balsa dust and a touch of clear dope. Mix well, stick into the ding. Let dry and sand it smooth. Very little wieght, looks like balsa, sounds like balsa and walks like balsa. Quack <= #^.
And if you don't have any Ambroid left in the tube, use Duco! It sets up really quick, though!!!!!!! **) Elmer's Glue All works, too.
Bill <><
Bill <><
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My local Ace Hardware has it in the adhesives department. DOC Holliday
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My local Ace Hardware has it in the adhesives department. DOC Holliday
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To Ty's #3:
These lightweight spackles also do well with a thin wipe of 5-minute epoxy. Keep it clean with 91% or 99% isopropyl rubbing alcohol, and lightly dust nitrate dope over as first cover.
Re-read Joe Reinhardt's Gypst 35 comments in current FM...
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But I think there is an old Ace way up north on Memorial Parkway.
I can find it all the time in Wal Mart. If there is one around you try it.
Lane