Canso65 Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 Several years ago I discovered Ambroid liquid glue in the tall slender bottle. When I bought my first bottle I was told to make a little support stand to prevent spilling the glue if I accidentally knock it over. Not me I thought. Well today was the day when it happen. As I was glueing a part dropped from my hands, in my heroic attempt to catch the part I knocked the glue over spilling it all over my building mat. Luckily no parts were ruined! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I'm sure some of you can relate.
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 ...Which is why i got in the habit of keeping my bottles of liquid glue in ceramic coffee cups. You have to be really clumsy to knock them over. It took gluing several difficult-to-make and very small scratch-built parts...ruined entirely...to the bench before I learned my lesson.
cobraman Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 Been there, done that. Now i glue it to some heavy card stock.
wayne swayze Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 Yes. Like so many others, been there, done that! Now, I make sure I move glue (etc) out of the way....but it WILL happen again!
Spex84 Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 I am now VERY careful with my liquid glue (not Ambroid, but same shape bottle) after wrecking a couple parts by knocking the bottle over and melting them to goo about 2 years ago. It wasted almost half a bottle of the stuff. I try to be conscious of where my hands are at all times in relation to the glue. Still, this is not exactly a fool-proof recipe, so I think I'll find something stable to slide the glue into, as some of you have done already.
Kit Basher Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 I somehow developed the ability to open and close the bottle with one hand. So I hold the parts with one hand, with the other I unscrew the cap, apply the glue, and screw the cap back on. So far, so good. Murphy will probably still get me sooner or later!
Aaronw Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) I have no idea what you are talking about, nope none at all. I just made this because I was bored... Edited March 17, 2016 by Aaronw
Ridge Rider Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 I managed to knock over a tamiya extra thin cement bottle just two weeks ago. Being a short square bottle I thought it would be tougher-I was wrong. As a side note it does work great to remove the lines on a cutting mat.
Mike999 Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 Sorry, I know how aggravating that is. I'm now very careful with anything in a tall, skinny bottle. MicroSet and MicroSol are also good potential spillers. But at least they don't glue stuff together.
Spex84 Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 High-that's how I spilled mine. I was one-handing it, the lid cross-threaded, and when it did, my fingers twitched, knocking the bottle over. Drat! Now I use two hands to open, but still sometimes use one to close the lid, so I'll be building a holder soon.
Roadrunner Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 I used to epoxy my bottle of cement to a 12" square piece of Masonite. That prevented many a tip-over.
Ramfins59 Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 I've knocked over a bottle of Tenax 7 and wound up using the plastic cap from a can of Duplicolor paint as a holder for it, as someone on this Forum had suggested. Turn the cap upside down and put the Tenax bottle into the small round center section where the spray can tip would go... the Tenax bottle fits perfectly. I don't think the Ambroid bottle is the same size but if so, it could work.
Snake45 Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 Haven't had this happen with cement yet, knock wood/styrene, but I DID do it with my bottle of original formula circa 1969 Solvaset, which SHOULD have been a lifetime supply of that wonderful stuff. The newer product is weaker, and not nearly as good, sigh....
Kit Basher Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 On 3/17/2016 at 6:19 PM, Spex84 said: High-that's how I spilled mine. I was one-handing it, the lid cross-threaded, and when it did, my fingers twitched, knocking the bottle over. Drat! Now I use two hands to open, but still sometimes use one to close the lid, so I'll be building a holder soon. Ha! I knew Murphy could find a way! Thanks for the warning, I'll be building a holder soon too. I like Aaron's, I have some pvc pipe around here somewhere. My Ambroid should work fine for gluing the pvc, as long as I don't knock the bottle over while I'm making the holder!
XJ6 Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 Well I have YET to knock over Glue but about 3 weeks ago knocked over a new bottle of All-clad now that was fun ?
Jon Cole Posted March 18, 2016 Posted March 18, 2016 Liquid glues, as well as small bottles of thinner, I store mine in an inverted Krylon cap. The kind with the inner ring of plastic.
Foxer Posted March 18, 2016 Posted March 18, 2016 The same happened to me a couple months ago and when relating it to my LMS owner he came up with this he makes ... just a piece of foam with a hole drilled in it ... works very well and simple!
Canso65 Posted March 19, 2016 Author Posted March 19, 2016 Some great ideas for making a holder for this type of glue.I'm definitely going to making one of these.
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