MikeOwnby
Active Member
The fact that it's due to my bad habit of e-cigarettes is a bit ironic, but oh well.
There may already be something like this out there, but let me tell you why I thought this was so great. Previously, any applicator bottles I'd found were just too large for N scale work. Drops would splash and displace the material, and streams would wash it away. Using an eyedropper worked perfectly as far as avoiding that problem but it's an incredibly tedious process to do things one eyedropper at a time.
The difference in this bottle is that it has a very fine tip made for both dripping a drop at a time and also is VERY smooth at starting a constant stream that still is low enough pressure to not upset your ballast or ground cover. It does an amazing job at sort of flooding the area with the glue without using so much force or having such a large stream that it messes up what you've carefully laid down. The only drawback is that the very fine applicator nozzle does eventually start to clog just a tiny bit as glue dries and keeps forming layers. However, "dry" is a relative term and it's actually just a gel-like mass that you can simply blow back out of it by removing the tip and blowing through it.
I realize this may not be a problem in larger scales, or there may be an applicator out there that works equally well, but I just wanted to share that I'd found one that works beautifully, far in excess of anything I've found from either hobby shops or Wal-Mart. Best thing? They're only 74 cents a piece and this place is really cheap on shipping too. Check it out if you've had some of the same issues I did.
http://www.madvapes.com/empty-soft-50ml-bottle-w-childproof-tamper-evident-cap.html
There may already be something like this out there, but let me tell you why I thought this was so great. Previously, any applicator bottles I'd found were just too large for N scale work. Drops would splash and displace the material, and streams would wash it away. Using an eyedropper worked perfectly as far as avoiding that problem but it's an incredibly tedious process to do things one eyedropper at a time.
The difference in this bottle is that it has a very fine tip made for both dripping a drop at a time and also is VERY smooth at starting a constant stream that still is low enough pressure to not upset your ballast or ground cover. It does an amazing job at sort of flooding the area with the glue without using so much force or having such a large stream that it messes up what you've carefully laid down. The only drawback is that the very fine applicator nozzle does eventually start to clog just a tiny bit as glue dries and keeps forming layers. However, "dry" is a relative term and it's actually just a gel-like mass that you can simply blow back out of it by removing the tip and blowing through it.
I realize this may not be a problem in larger scales, or there may be an applicator out there that works equally well, but I just wanted to share that I'd found one that works beautifully, far in excess of anything I've found from either hobby shops or Wal-Mart. Best thing? They're only 74 cents a piece and this place is really cheap on shipping too. Check it out if you've had some of the same issues I did.
http://www.madvapes.com/empty-soft-50ml-bottle-w-childproof-tamper-evident-cap.html
