Wire Glue?

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Neb
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Wire Glue?

Post by Neb »

Okay fellas, what about this stuff:

http://www.wireglue.us/

Snake oil, or a decent substitute for soldering----on simple projects. Not like a 1/350 refit.

Any experience, thoughts? :)
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I have heard of this before but never tried it. It definately has some possibilities in our little hobby!
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Post by LiebeVision »

DON'T BUY IT. Looked up a bunch of reviews online, and basically it's junk. It's as thick as water, takes forever to dry, isn't THAT conductive, and you have to use super glue on top of it.

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Post by Richard Baker »

I bought some to experiment with a while back when it wsa fist mentioned in these forums. I ran teast with it on a sheet of styrene and a test meter.
It beads up like water based ink, it does not stick to anything well and it is a poor conductor.
A potentially great idea, but it just does not work as advertised. If you want to run a painted on type of circuit I would recommend just using foil instead.

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Post by Neb »

As I feared. :(

It just seems so "heavy-handed" soldering up 24ga wire. :P

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Use thinner solder, like .015 stuff.
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