Glue Wars
The Thrifty Rocketeer blog continues... No, this is not another "which glue is best" thread. Instead, I want to share a couple of horror stories with you about why you should ask the above question. When I first got into this hobby, I didn't have a lot of spare cash...I didn't have a lot of spray paint (yet)...and my glue options were few. Now several years before, for Christmas, my wife bought a couple of these assemble-yourself-kit-furniture kits, and we started a tradition of assembling the "thing" immediately on Christmas evening after the meal was cleared. Now, if you've ever assembled one of these pieces of furniture, you'll know that the instructions are stilted, the count of hardware is always exactly on, with virtually NO extras... and they supply their own tiny bottle of glue. Typically, the tube is smaller than a tube of toothpaste, but about the size of a lip therapy Vaseline jelly tube. As I recall the tube had a red or orange cap, a...