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Old 01-31-2006 | 08:40 PM
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Default RE: Help for a newbe!!!

RCKen - sounds like you've been building for a couple of years .

I learned to build with yellow carpenters glue and expoy long before the advent of CA. I've found CA can be brittle and have noticed on some crashes that the CA glue failed, but have not had a glue joint failure with carpenters glue - the wood always went first. I will use CA, but for limited uses like thread hardening. I have a few planes close to 30 years old that are still flight worthy - built with carpenters glue. I think since yellow glue takes a lot longer to set up, it may penetrate the wood better and will flex a bit more in a very hard landing (i.e. crash landing ) than CA.

Given the choice I always recommend yellow glue - it's worked well for me for close to 30 years.

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