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Unsealing plastic glue


Araziel

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Does anyone have any idea the best ways to unseal plastic cement? I have a load of Cities of Death buildings that I would like to be able to pull apart and reuse the parts for for my next project...if it comes to it I will just use a razor saw and carefully cut the pieces up, but if anyone knows of any ways to get the glue to unbond I would be so grateful!

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

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Depending how well you glued them, you really can't easily pull plastic apart. Since it welds the pieces together, they're really one piece now. Sometimes I'll get lucky and realize I didn't do a great job gluing in the first place, but if it doesn't give easily a saw will give you better control. If you've got something like a chisel you can try to push that in and pry gently by rocking it back and forth, but I don't often have too much luck with this. 

I was thinking I would likely have to spend a fair amount of time prying them apart in some form of another, but I thought it would be worth checking to see if anyone knew of any strange techniques that could at least soften the bond up a little - oh well!

Looks like I will be spending the next few modelling sessions pulling apart an a Imperial sector!

 

Many thanks for the reply.

If you are lucky then the model may have been undercoated before assembly and in this case dipping the model in a paint remover may help. I had a couple of devilfish from eBay that just fell apart during the paint stripping process ;)

 

If that is not the case then there is no easy way apart from carefully using a knife along the join line.

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