*heh* I just figure as quick as a lot of us are to bash folks in this hobby, it's nice to rave some times when a product deserves it.

Best place I've seen it used was on an EPP foam aircraft. There are plenty of joints on your typical foamy that can stand to flex a little...or even NEED to...and typical CA (foam safe or otherwise) simply doesn't allow for that.

I've also used it in one case to CA a throttle and choke servo directly to the engine box of a gasser. The C doesn't allow enough movement to actually cause slop in the throttle/choke valve, but it DOES allow the servo to be isolated from vibration in the same way the rubber grommets usually do. The application has worked fine for some time now, and really opened up quite a few "potential mounting locations" where cutting out servo holes would have been difficult or impractical.

There is, indeed. It has 2 advantages, imo:

1) Being just a bit thicker, it doesn't tend to run out of a joint and into/on to other parts of the ARF.
2) It does a MUCH better job of bonding surfaces that aren't "dry clean wood"...such as perhaps a balsa or ply plate already coated with epoxy, or perhaps a fiber wing tube socket, or what have you.

Mostly, it's just kinda nice to have something on hand that has most of the advantages of both Medium and Thin...very fast set time, but enough work time, filling properties, and stronger adhesion, like Medium.


That, in fact, highlights one of the "ancillary benefits", if you will, that I've found with Mercury's stuff.

I really don't mind buying a particular bottle for one very specific task...even if I won't use it very often. The stuff simply does NOT go bad (well, i should say, I haven't had any go bad yet in close to a year) and I never have to worry about clogged tips, etc. Given that, I'm really ok spending, say, $4-$6 for a small bottle of the 100XF, EVEN if I won't use it much.