Glue

[smartkid222]

yes, Uncure. Example:
http://www.votawtool.com/zcom.asp?pg=pr ... =jndqrpgrc

[illusionist]

Does acetone work on softening CA glue as well? I've been reading around, and acetone seems to work. Any experience?

[ClaytonShen]

Yes I've heard about acetone too ..

No experience though ...

[Frogger4907]

Does acetone work on softening CA glue as well? I've been reading around, and acetone seems to work. Any experience?

Yes acetone is a key component to de-bonders

[illusionist]

I tried using nail polish remover today on my CA glue, and it did not work. Instead, it just made the balsa week enough so that the thing rips off.

[aubrey048]

Nail polish remover is best on glue-covered hands. The same happens to me when I use it on balsa. I suggest you use it and shave off the leftover glue with an exacto-knife. That was my strategy.

[chia]

Does CA loosen with humidity? I sort of doubt it, but that's the reason my partner suggested for my relatively decent regionals copter breaking at the joints from pressure , and I don't have much of an explanation.
...Maybe it was the rubber that was affected? Even though it didn't have as many winds as I have put in before, my partner said it was getting really really hard to handle (very tight).

[kjhsscioly]

Does CA loosen with humidity? I sort of doubt it, but that's the reason my partner suggested for my relatively decent regionals copter breaking at the joints from pressure , and I don't have much of an explanation.
...Maybe it was the rubber that was affected? Even though it didn't have as many winds as I have put in before, my partner said it was getting really really hard to handle (very tight).

It wouldn't be the CA loosening with humidity...

The wood itself swells, especially with something like balsa, and wood swelling is not good, no matter what. It happens to a lot of things, like my violin. I left it in high humidity, and part of the bow swelled enough to break. Which goes to reason that it could easily happen to a softwood helicopter.

The rubber wasn't THAT bad, just seemed tighter because it was the first time I wound 1/8, and it didn't seem to take more than 850 without problems.

[chia]

Does CA loosen with humidity? I sort of doubt it, but that's the reason my partner suggested for my relatively decent regionals copter breaking at the joints from pressure , and I don't have much of an explanation.
...Maybe it was the rubber that was affected? Even though it didn't have as many winds as I have put in before, my partner said it was getting really really hard to handle (very tight).

It wouldn't be the CA loosening with humidity...

The wood itself swells, especially with something like balsa, and wood swelling is not good, no matter what. It happens to a lot of things, like my violin. I left it in high humidity, and part of the bow swelled enough to break. Which goes to reason that it could easily happen to a softwood helicopter.

The rubber wasn't THAT bad, just seemed tighter because it was the first time I wound 1/8, and it didn't seem to take more than 850 without problems.

Lol whoops. That's what it soundd like to my sleep-deprived brain, I guess.
Wait... I knew that! Why'd I even bother asking? -fail-

[kjhsscioly]

Don't worry about it... there may be a solution, keeping rice in the helicopter box