Does Cellulose Thinner Really Melt Plastic?

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Final week I started explaining how I began out with modelling. I can clearly do not forget that on the age of 10 sitting in my father or mother’s kitchen making an Airfix racing automobile, I believe it was a Ferrari. Nicely I had completed the mannequin and it was prepared for its paint job. Certainly one of my elder brother’s who was a automobile paint sprayer at all times cleaned the physique work down with thinners to take away grease and filth and so on. This I assumed was a terrific concept.

Now in my defence I used to be solely 10 years of age, so I duly acquired the Cellulose Thinners to wash down the physique earlier than portray and to my horror watched the plastic physique soften earlier than my very eyes. There in a matter of minutes was my lovely Ferrari utterly melted, ruined, a couple of tears have been shed on that night time.

Oh nicely after that catastrophe I made a decision to, and it’s now the very very first thing I do (even now) is to learn the directions earlier than I do anything, a lesson learnt you would possibly say, and at 10 years of age a really painful one!

After making vehicles, boats and so on it was time to enterprise into the skies. Certainly one of my elder sisters purchased me a Mercury Marauder 65″ wing span glider; which I imagine should be obtainable from Replikit.

This was my first enterprise into the world of Balsa modelling and one which I completely loved. I nonetheless keep in mind the satisfaction of slicing out all of the ribs for the wings and by following the plans having the ability to make a whole wing construction, which though appeared extraordinarily fragile is in reality fairly sturdy.

I used to be completely hooked on the entire idea of constructing quite than shopping for a readymade mannequin, though I’ll confess that the RTF fashions do supply the modeller instantaneous enjoyable and pleasure.

Anyway after many hours constructing this glorious airplane and affected by tendonitis the following day from chopping by way of the onerous balsa sheets with nothing greater than a craft knife the overlaying of the aircraft’s delicate skeletal body was looming.

I am going to cowl (pardon the pun) this subsequent time

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