What a helpful discussion!
Being rather nervous of soldering irons if I don't absolutely have to
use them, I made up a small amount of thick and very sticky
shellac-in-alcohol for these purposes by gradually adding more and more
dry flake shellac to some good commercial sanding sealer that I
decanted into a disused medicine bottle which I then shook together for
a very long time. (It dissolved very slowly, especially as the mix got
thicker, so I did a bit at a time). It's extremely useful goo, applied
with a small brush or toothpick, and it works fast.
To keep this mixture from setting hard in the screw thread of the
bottle, making it monstrously difficult ever to unscrew again, as I
discovered to my cost the first time I tried, I put a double layer of
kitchen film over the the bottle neck before screwing the top back.
Then it will unscrew easily, however long it is before I need it again.
(The same dodge works just as well with used tins of paint and
varnish).
Daphne
On 15 Jan 2011, at 16:45, [email protected] wrote:
UHU is a pain if you need to get in there, though.
Shellac is at least easy to soften.
John
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