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Originally Posted by eternalblue02
You can use Loctite on clean breaks. Get a bottle of the liquid super glue with the brush. Brush a little on both broken parts and fit them together. Apply some safe pressure and hold for at least 2-3 minutes uninterrupted. Less is more. You can also use a can of air afterwards for good measure around the area.
I’ve repaired my Sylvannas where her foot peg goes in. There is a protruding stone on the base that got caught as it went into the hole and snapped. You’d never know it broke.
Never used epoxy so I can’t help you there.
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Question for you. So I finally had some time to play around with this. I tried first on a broken leg of a spider attachment for my Venom statue that sideshow is replacing anyways, so I figured it was better to practice on that first before Sylvanas.
So I noticed it took a damn long time for the bond to finally set in. I brushed on the glue onto both parts, but I'll be honest the damn thing kept sliding off where I was setting it in. So I guess my question is, if you make the slightest twist with your hand does it basically ruin the bond it is trying to make?
I think what happened was that even though I tried to use it sparingly, I still used too much. Once the glue seeped out of the cracks around the break, I couldn't tell if it was set in correctly anymore so I kept trying to apply pressure but also line it up better. I tried leaving it on the table after a while but at first it didn't hold and it fell off. (That was like after 5-10 min of pressure.) So I put more glue in and repeated the process. Needless to say, the second time worked better. I also wedged a pen underneath the leg on the table to keep the part in place. Now, like six hours later it clearly has a pretty strong bond.
I was just wondering if the whole thing took so long because I used too much glue? Even though my description sounded terrible it actually came out alright. But there def is a little excess glue around the seem where the two parts went together.