Haha, that’s so true! The padded cell really is the perfect place for delicate assembly—no carpet monsters to eat your tiny parts, and your frustration stays private! Do you have any funny stories about lost pieces or assembly mishaps?
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Haha, good point! If the floor is padded too, those carpet monsters would be twice as tough to defeat! I guess a trusty hobby knife is a must-have weapon—even in the padded cell. Hopefully, no one’s ever banned from bringing their tools in!
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I thought about it, briefly, before deciding that my sanity was too valuable.
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Well others thought this was amusing, I’ve told the story at least twice before over the past 5 years but I can’t find which threads it was in. So with apologies to old hands, and for the benefit of newer players;
I was putting some PE brackets into a MiniArt Su122 interior, using CA glue and a scalpel blade to push them into their shallow recesses. The first two went in OK (after putting a smudge of CA into each recess), but the third fought back because the recess wasn’t quite long enough. Becoming frustrated I heard a fatal “ping” and blinked at the same moment – the PE bracket had vanished. I spent an hour or more searching the workbench, my clothes, the carpet and eventually the whole room. Nothing.
That night as I was brushing my teeth, something caught my eye in the mirror…something glinting on the top of my ear.
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Starbond Black CA takes about 10 seconds to grab, so you have some adjustment time. It’s strength and resilience is far superior to regular CA. Get some.
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