09-06-2010, 08:59 AM
tetters Wrote:I do have a tube of Pliobond, but I have not had great experience with it so far. I must be doing something wrong as just seem to make more of a mess then actually accomplish any cementing of materials. :?
The stuff in the tube is hard to use. The solvent rises to the "top". The old stuff use to come in a brush bottle. Probably the best approach is to squeeze it out and apply it with a stick.
The reason Pliobond was used for track laying over other contact cements is it is "rubbery" and more flexible and gives a stronger bond than most. I found trackbed sections in my father's barn that had been out in the weather that still had the code 55 rail bonded to the ties.
Edit: The roadbed was from the mid=seventies.
Harold