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Old 12-27-2002 | 01:15 PM
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Al Stein
 
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One more comment -- on the idea that white glues add "probably several times as much weight," that turns out not to be true.

Most of the weight of the aliphatic goop evaporates as the glue dries, whereas virtually all of the weight of CA becomes part of the airplane. You generally apply a bit larger volume of aliphatic, but the mass that actually remains in the airplane is way way less than what's applied once the water dries out of it.

Now this is just me, but I can build a plane with aliphatic lighter than anyone I know can build the same plane with CA, and if I take longer, it's almost all because of how much time I put into aligning things, not because of glue drying time.