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Old 01-21-2003 | 11:05 PM
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HarryC
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Default How do you make rivets?

I take the nozzles that you can buy for cyanos, and fit it over the spout of an aliphatic glue bottle. Then go along the line squeezing out little glue rivets, once practised you can achieve up to 20 rivets per minute. I tried both the soft setting (canopy glue) and hard setting sandable aliphatics, the hard setting was much better as the soft setting can flex during cleaning of the model and then paint comes off. Both glues shrink considerably as they dry, so do some tests first to find the correct wet size of drop needed to get the correct dry drop.

Harry