About foam safe glue item

[Magrat]

The product "HY33-0601 Fast Drying Foam Glue 40ml".

Is this the same glue that GWS supplies in their kits?

[CSO#1 @UHobbies]

Many people have asked this.
Show me a photo of the glue from a GWS kit and I will confirm.

[Magrat]

Same style of "toothpaste" tube.
Over all length is approx 120mm.
White painted metal alloy tube which looks the same as the one on your site but has red GWS english advertising not the chinese characters as yours.
Has a longer white screw cap with a pointy bit in the end to puncture the metal seal on first opening.

Clear transparent glue. Fruity smell to the solvent, probably an ester. Sets by solvent evaporation. Can be used as a volume glue or a contact adhesive.

When used as a volume glue it releases bubbles in the glue.

[CSO#1 @UHobbies]

Hi.
I cannot be sure.
Though I doubt they would change the tube shape and cap for OEM. It's probably another factory. There are thousands of glue factories in this country.

[Magrat]

Just received two tubes of the glue.

Just a heads up for UH. Both tubes had leaked glue from the crimped ends. Looking at the smooth taut tube I would surmise that they had leaked due to low pressure in the cargo hold. Good thing you sent them in a ziplock bag.

[Vegas_flyer]

Just received two tubes of the glue.

Just a heads up for UH. Both tubes had leaked glue from the crimped ends. Looking at the smooth taut tube I would surmise that they had leaked due to low pressure in the cargo hold. Good thing you sent them in a ziplock bag.
Can you tell us how the glue works? Is it like a contact cement? Similar to UHU or GWS?

Chris

[Magrat]

Will be using it next week. Seems similar to GWS stuff. I'm trying to get the stuff on the outside to dry off so that I can reseal the crimps.

Is an light amber colour and sticky as hell. Got some on my fingers while trying to rip the packets apart as they had glued themselves in and stuck to everything in sight.

[Magrat]

Tried the glue on a Depron foamy.

It is a contact glue sure enough.

One surprise was the viscosity. Probably near water or less. When I shake the tube I can feel and hear the glue sloshing about.

It quickly flows out to give a nice thin film, certainly not a gap filler unless multiple layers are laid down. Flashes quite quickly in a thin film. Good grab but seems to stay tacky longer than the GWS stuff after it has set, so may present some problems in cleaning up glue from joints. If in a lump, it is very slow to set and foams, the same as GWS glue does.

The tube came in a cardboard box with a plastic dispensing nozzle (like supplied with caulking tubes) and due to the consistency you need to use it ( if you don't then prepare for a flood) and only a very small hole to dispense. A brush would probably do if one was to work quickly.

Looks quite good for glueing sheet to sheet. For the depron I just laid a thin line on one surface where I wanted a butt join pressed the surfaces to gether, broke the join and waited about 5 sec and pressed the surfaces together, adjusted alignment and allowed to set. For sticking the wing to the body I wanted the max working time (large flat areas of depron) so I just made a thin coating on one surface, pressed together, adjusted alignment and let set.

Still can't get the tubes to reseal properly.

Cleans up with acetone. Got some glue on my fingers and was sticking to everything I touched. :)

Would recommend. Not a replacement for GWS glue but certainly a useful addition to the range of glues for foam airplanes.

Sure to create multiple whingeing on RCG as has the GWS glue. :(

[Chatenever]

Magrat -
I ordered a tube and have been using it. Everything is as you described it. I like the low viscosity because it seems to wick into a joint without having to pre-glue it (like where a flat foam wing slides into a slot in a foam body.

Can you give us some feedback on how the glue joints held up strength-wise? Also, did you try it out on any other materials such as plastic servo case to foam?

[Magrat]

Has been holding up quite well. The foamy hasn't.

5 rough ground contacts and much regluing with epoxy on cracked depron but the original joints are ok.

Haven't intentionally tried it on anything else.

It glues wheel hubs to metal axles ok. :(

[Chatenever]

It glues wheel hubs to metal axles ok. :(

LOL :D Thanks for starting out my day with a yuk.