The plastic being used today

Try using micro-balloons or baking soda instead of plastic dust. Plastic dust works great with a solvent based glues, but CA glues are not solvent based. Glue the parts together first, then fill/sand.

Your superglue has gone bad. After a while the longer it sits after you open it the less it works.

Well at least that has been my experience.

I tend to buy krazy glue in the small boxed sets of small tubes. My experience has been if the cap is not exceptionally tight the stuff can go bad really fast. So large tube for large jobs - resing ships - small tubes for small jobs - assembling a miniature figure.

I have not noticed a problem. Two main reasons for glue failure seem to be CA shelf life and mold release on plastic.

CA does have a limited life and I have frequently had to replace a tube before it is all used up. I never buy big tubes or containers.

As far as mold release, most injection molded kits today do not have much of a problem, but I still do find a problem with a few mfgs. Washing a kit is good insurance. Resin kits always need to be cleaned.

Don Stauffer wrote in news:4ca72a36$0$509$815e3792 @news.qwest.net:

Amen to the shelf life. I have started picking up CA at Lowes. I can get 2 small tunes in a blister pack for a couple bucks. Far better chance of me finishing a tube before it turns now.

I buy mine at a Dollar General. I pay $2.00 each for blister packs of two. As we go to this plaza once a week to gas up and shop at BJ's, I stop in about once a month or so and buy a half dozen packs.

The last bunch of glue I bought at discount dollar store (four tubes in blister pack) all were bad- the tubes were too thin and cracked when you squeezed them- got glue all over my fingers! Tried all four and discarded the whole batch. I can see why they were in a dollar store :-(

the green packed 4 tupbe set are 99 cents and hold up, green pak.