Last night I used 50/50 mixture of water and Elmer's white glue along with a small drop of liquid dish soap to glue in a real coal load onto a tender. I have done this before and I thought it would dry overnight but looking at it today it is still all wet and somewhat loose. Should I wait until it is all dry before I add another application of glue or put it under a small lamp to make it dry faster?
Thanks
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Depends
Depends on how much you soaked it.
Try soaking less with the 50/50 after the same amount of wetting.
I spray or drop 100% Windex and work a small area.
Scrappy
I think the issue was that I washed the coal to get all the dust off of it 1st and didn't let it fully dry before I used it. I used aquarium filter rocks and they have charcoal dust all over them.
I will let it dry for a few more days and see what happens.
I'm wetting with a 91% Isopropyl Alcohol/water mix, and then gluing with either Woodlands Scenics Scenery Cement or Aleen's Tacky glue thinned with water. The Aleen's is a little thicker and really needs the ballast to be wet so it soaks in well.
Drying Time: I let it go 24 hours and it's good and dry. The basement is a very dry room. It does not dry fast! When this is finished, I'm probably going through $100 just for scenery glue for ballasting over 300 feet of track. Yikes!
i use the same solution ratio as you do jdjr.to speed up the drying time put a small fan on the layout and direct the air flow over the area's you ballasted.
i use an oscillating fan and the ballast drys rock hard in 4 to 6 hours or less.
thop......
Everything dries faster outside in the sun
I just checked it after I cut the lawn this morning and it is all dried solid!
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