Christopher Albers wrote:
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> Contact cement takes a very long time to set up and become hard and it
> never really is permanent, as you can separate it much later (usually)
> without damaging your material.
Hey Chris,
I will have to side with Jay on this one. My experience with contact
cement is that you get one (and ONLY one) chance to get it properly
aligned. Once the two pieces touch, even in a small area, they do not
separate. I have only used the solvent based contact cements (not the
newer water based), and only on horizontal surfaces.
Someone else recommended wood dowels, I did basically the same thing
using long strips of wood and newspaper. I start in the middle, pulling
the newspaper away and pulling out the wood strips and move out to the
edges. There is a small hand held roller that is handy for this kind of
work. This would be more difficult on a vertical surface.
-Roger
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