I just got my hands on one of the few remaining Lanier Lasers. Not much wood in the thing, mostly foam and plastic. I was reading through the instructions and they say to use CA in spots to bond plastic to plastic, in other spots it says to use this "Air-o-cement" that came with it. The stuff smells like MEK, and it's really thin. My question is, what's everyone else use to bond ABS? I'm not a real CA fan when it comes to plastic. I think my SPAD adventures did that to me. Where the instructions said to use their cement, I toyed with PVC glue. It seems to be holding fine so far, but it's only been a couple days and maybe 10 flights. (I only used the PVC glue to glue the wheel pants and cowl together, and to hold the canopy on). Will the PVC cement hold as well as the stuff they packaged with the 'ARF"?
I can understand why Lanier went out of business. I bought a couple Stingers about a month ago. The plastic warps and nothing is straight. I tried to straighten out the turtle deck on one of them with a heat gun. It looks like crap, but it's straight now. This laser is even worse. It says right on the box "No covering necessary", then 3 lines down it says that the tail Vertival stab, rudder and elevator need to be covered in my favorite covering. LOL I think they must have been inhaling a little too much of that glue...