asdercks Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Hi guys here´s a question for the cake makers.has anyone ever tried to plug bombettes using caulk or silicone glue, seems my method of using cardboard disk plugs with wood glue is not working really well, so I was wondering if using caulk or silicone glue would make strong plugs for bombettes, I really wish I had a place where I could go test/shoot but I live in the city and that is why I have to make this kind of questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 hot glue does a good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdercks Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 hot glue does a good job.hey Col thanks for the reply I'll give it a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niladmirari Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Epoxy resin stronger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyco_1322 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Epoxy resin stronger. Epoxy more expensive too! I'd say to try hot glue. I tried using some caulking for a similar purpose and when it dries it shrinks pretty bad and cracks all over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdercks Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 Epoxy more expensive too! I'd say to try hot glue. I tried using some caulking for a similar purpose and when it dries it shrinks pretty bad and cracks all over.That just happened to me, I just checked some test tubes that I left drying last night and the plugs were full of cracks so I think I'll just stick with the hot glue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdercks Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 Epoxy resin stronger.It did cross my mind to use epoxy, but just imagine how much of the stuff I would need to plug 280 bombettes, lots of it and that translates into lot of money compared to using hot glue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrB Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Hard plugs from glueguns or epoxy, in the city air? Um... No. Cant plug one end with bentonite, and the other with layers of cardboard plugs, paste / wood-glue, and top it of by crimping the end over the cardboard plug?B! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdercks Posted December 24, 2013 Author Share Posted December 24, 2013 Hard plugs from glueguns or epoxy, in the city air? Um... No. Cant plug one end with bentonite, and the other with layers of cardboard plugs, paste / wood-glue, and top it of by crimping the end over the cardboard plug?B!Thats exactly how I was plugging my bombettes but the the cardboard plugs I was using where made using a hollow punch tool but the disks came out a little bit smaller than the inner diameter of the bombette tube so the plugs were getting blown up easily, thats why I thought using hot glue would make stronger plugs... what do you mean with...Hard plugs from glueguns or epoxy, in the city air? Um... No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrB Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 I don't like spreading hard shrapnel where it can end up on property, or people. Thats what i mean with it. Just get a larger hollow punch, or, use squares. Square plug in a round hole is very effective, when we are talking time consumption. Hitting them home with a wooden dowel gives them a lot of "wall contact area" and provides nice possibilities for sticking. It's perhaps not as pretty, but works.B! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan999ification Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 For the Bigguns you could use a tissue wad then clay then a disk and some wood glue, your stars have to be strong to hand press the clay Hot glue works well but you need a thick plug on large ids.You can skip the tissue if you use the break as a wad. An idea I'm toying with is to make some tubes with a sliding fit, ram captive visco on one, a solid plug on the other then glue and slide them together Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdercks Posted December 24, 2013 Author Share Posted December 24, 2013 I don't like spreading hard shrapnel where it can end up on property, or people. Thats what i mean with it. Just get a larger hollow punch, or, use squares. Square plug in a round hole is very effective, when we are talking time consumption. Hitting them home with a wooden dowel gives them a lot of "wall contact area" and provides nice possibilities for sticking. It's perhaps not as pretty, but works.B!funny thing I was plugging some bombettes this morning and I was thinking about your post when suddenly I realized what you meant about using hard plugs in the city. Never thought of using squares as plugs, I'll try it out next time, for now I'll have to use the glue plugs as I'm almost done plugging, but thanks for the tips and of course merry christmas to you and all your love ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrB Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 An idea I'm toying with is to make some tubes with a sliding fit, ram captive visco on one, a solid plug on the other then glue and slide them together This works. I've used it for ages. For a while i only had some pretty thin Visco, and it chocked, probably the ramming got to tight, and fire simply weren't reliably passing through. I resorted to (at the time) "blasters fuse", the tar covered kind, and later when i ran out of, and bought new Visco i grabbed a thicker kind, and the problem went away again. I have yet to use real timefuse, but i don't see any reason it wouldn't work.B! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdercks Posted December 25, 2013 Author Share Posted December 25, 2013 For the Bigguns you could use a tissue wad then clay then a disk and some wood glue, your stars have to be strong to hand press the clay Hot glue works well but you need a thick plug on large ids.You can skip the tissue if you use the break as a wad. An idea I'm toying with is to make some tubes with a sliding fit, ram captive visco on one, a solid plug on the other then glue and slide them together Dan.Hey there, thanks for the tip, at some point I kinda thought of the same idea for plugging, but the only problem I have, is that I live in the city and I can't really go out to the street and test/shoot, I would love to see if your idea works out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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