Ok, I am sharing to hopefully give everyone a laugh. I finished a 1/35 Border Kettenkrad a few days ago and went to prime it. I grabbed the wrong can and gave it a good coating of LePage All Purpose spray adhesive. AAaaarggg! After two days I couldn/t understand why it was still tacky.
I retraced my steps and did a face palm. I will wait a day or two and give it a coat of the solvent-based primer I normally use, and pray for the best. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger I have heard…?
Great tip , thanks. The orange goo gone took off the adhesive without any scrubbing required, just a spritz, let it sit and then rinse with water. I am back in business.
Thank you for sharing. I had a similar incident one time. It wasn’t model related, but it took place during one of my other hobbies, collecting and using old tools. I was repainting the stand for a foot powered grinding wheel and grabbed my can of black spray paint and started spraying. I thought the paint looked a little funny and that it was covering really well for a first coat. I looked at the can, I had grabbed a can of Flex Seal by mistake. So……..after wiping the stand down and letting it dry, I painted it with the right material!!
Lesson learned…………don’t trust the cap color when grabbing a can of spray paint!!
Make sure you keep your coffee cup away from your brush-cleaning cup in your painting area, too; you don’t want to accidentally drink from the cleaning cup, and dunking a paintbrush in your coffee is a waste.
I put Airbrush Thinner, Alcohol, Flow Improver and Water in identical dropper bottles. Even with different labels, it is very easy to pick up the wrong bottle, especially when something else is going wrong and the frustration meter is already ticking up.
Reminds me of a similar but different incident involving spray adhesive, I’ve told it before. Building up layers of tissue paper for a tarp, I was interrupted by a call after the 2nd layer. Returning to the scene I picked up the can, not noticing the nozzle wasn’t where I thought I’d left it. Got the 3rd layer ready, sprayed straight into my face at close range. Luckily my blink reflex saved my eyes, but it took my wife some time to unglue my face.
In Sweden the cat food brand Whiskas (whiskers??)
had an advertising campaign: “Whiskas, if the cat is allowed to choose”
some humourist (funny guy) soon changed it to:
“Whiskas, if granddad is allowed to choose” …
So……..after wiping the stand down and letting it dry, I painted it with the right material!! 
