Release Spray for Superglue

Can the plates be made "non-stick"?

Superglue doesn't stick to many plastics.

Waxed paper.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Or teflon plates.

I build model airplanes on waxed paper with super glue. The glue does stick lightly to the paper, but the paper can be pulled off of the airframe easily enough.

I'm a bit confused by what you want, and this probably won't help. But they do make bondable magnet wire with an adhesive layer that's activated by heat or a solvent (alcohol.)

George H.

You might also try polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) spray. Hobby shops carry it as well as ebay. It is the standard mold release agent everyone uses.

I might, at that.

When I worked at Wescott's Auto Restyling maintaining molds, we did NOT use PVA as a mold release -- it's great stuff as far as being quick, reliable and easy, but it doesn't retain the shine the way that you can with buffed, sealed and waxed gel-coat.

We did use PVA anywhere that we needed to apply polyester to an external surface and have it cure completely -- polyester resin doesn't cure in the presence of the humidity in the air, but it will cure under PVA.

Mold release spray is available from any industrial distributor. Cheap.

Silicone lubricant spray should work too. Not sure how pure the stuff at the auto parts stores is.

If you actually have to have the coil stick to something afterward, try PTFE sheet.

Best regards,

--Spehro Pefhany

I use the sticky side of some polyester tape to keep layer windings in place. Span the tape sticky side up across the bobbin, after the first few turns the tape stays in place. And its not stuck to the bobbin only to the windings. The excess on the ends can be folded over the top of the windings. I do this on the turns on the ends so they don't unravel when the next layer is wound on top.

Cheers

Thanks for the hints. I will try waxed paper and work my way from there.

Someone elsewhere suggested hair spray, which works similarly to PVA release and is cheaper in small quantity. Supposed to wash off with water.

Ken Knowles

Hair sprays are commonly PVA based.

Use Teflon(TM) tape for the substrate?