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Offline Ty Marcucci

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Very, very old glue and dope.
« on: February 26, 2019, 02:00:30 PM »
These two bottles were in an old Cleveland kit from the late 40's.  (Ambroid?)
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Re: Very, very old glue and dope.
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2019, 02:42:56 PM »

  Ty, please keep us informed on your speriment, I think that it will work well..Best of luck, oh will I see you at Denham Springs La next month?? 
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Re: Very, very old glue and dope.
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2019, 08:50:36 PM »

 Couldn't you have just put them in the Wayback Machine?
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Re: Very, very old glue and dope.
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2019, 09:15:03 PM »
I remember stumbling onto a 20 plus year old barrel of Randolf Butyrate in one of the T hangers at Toledo Express.  We hauled it into the maintenence hanger and started using out of it for a couple of Colts we were repainting.  It was fine after increasing the ratio of thinner to dope.
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Re: Very, very old glue and dope.
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2019, 07:10:34 AM »
You could use it on one of those old Comet kits mentioned in another thread <= y1 y1
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Re: Very, very old glue and dope.
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2019, 03:25:06 PM »
I could donate a tube of unused glue from a 40's Berkeley kit to your collection.  ;D
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Re: Very, very old glue and dope.
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2019, 04:04:19 PM »
Dope doesn't do much when it ages, may discolor some hence the Ambroid color.  Unlike epoxies, polyurethane, and other high tech paint dope is just a solution pretty stable plastics with common solvents.
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Re: Very, very old glue and dope.
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2019, 01:21:54 PM »
My tube of "Tarzan's Grip" glue from Australia (came home on Quantas in my luggage) finally dried out and went into the trash. It smelled and looked just like Duco, which is my 1st alternate to Ambroid. I tried SigMent when I was a teen, and found it was NG. Built half a StardusterX wing with it and it pretty much just fell apart when I took it up off the plans.  n1 Steve
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