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- From: 161685732@vill.edu (JOE PRYSZLAK)
- Subject: Re: hot glue
- Message-ID: <30DEC199217263764@vill.edu>
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- Organization: Villanova University
- References: <23DEC199220462000@vill.edu> <1hq68oINNdh5@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:26:00 GMT
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- In article <1hq68oINNdh5@transfer.stratus.com>, cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares) writes...
- >In article <23DEC199220462000@vill.edu>, 161685732@vill.edu (JOE PRYSZLAK) writes:
- >> I recently had to buy a hot-glue gun to fix my macintosh. I wanted to know,
- >> since I now own the thing, how good is hot glue at hoding balsa fins onto
- >> paper body tubes?
- >
- >Bloody awful. First, it tends to make a gloppy mess, and even if it
- >doesn't, the glue is much too flexible after it sets. Second, engines
- >usually get hotter than your hot glue gun, and your fins simply fall
- >off in mid-flight.
- >--
- >
- >cdt@rocket.sw.stratus.com --If you believe that I speak for my company,
- >OR cdt@vos.stratus.com write today for my special Investors' Packet...
- Sounds horrible to me! Fins falling off in mid flight. Well, I'll remember
- to use something else.
-
- Another question, does anyone besides the old CMR sell fin jigs?
-