How to Glue Model Car Parts

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Hi I'm Greg B from Expert Village. Today we're going to talk about model cars. Now, we're going to talk about a few tips on gluing. Your chrome parts, your glue doesn't stick very well to them. The glue actually burns into the plastic to bond them together. So you trim your parts off you want to take your x-acto knife. We're just going to use it on the tree and scrape that chrome off where you're going to glue. Now you've got a perfect gluing surface to glue plastic to plastic. It holds a lot better. As you break your parts off of the trees that they're attached too, you have what?s called flashing; that little bump in the plastic where it was attached and injected molding process. All you want to do it take your knife and just clean it up a little bit. It makes your parts fit together a lot better, to get that perfect fit. Something like this we'd want to take and put just a little bit of dab of glue where it's not showing, slide it in. What I like to do, I like to pre-fit everything before I actually put the glue on it to make sure it's going to fit in correctly. Once this is painted, you don't want to mess up the paint job. I like to use a toothpick. A lot of times when you open a tube of glue it will run out, especially a new tube. Get a little paper towel just in case. All you need is a dab, you don't need a lot. Couple of dabs. And that should be enough to hold it in place. You want to hold it for about 20 seconds. What we're going to do, I just happen to have a clamp, we're going to place a clamp on here. Now we know we have a real good fit and that will probably never come off of there. It's a good thing to have. You can get them a lot smaller than this you could possibly use a paper clip on here instead of this big. It's about a two hour dry time on that but she should be set up pretty good in about five minutes. You want to make sure your cap is firmly in place on your cement.

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