Garward

Cable - "template" for the direction of installation of chains.

The bottom deadeye and chains fok-masts, the left board are established.

To reach home all ways approach!

Hi, Scott! If you mean glue for fixing of knots on ropes, practically doesn't leave traces shellac.

Hi, Grant! Stain for ropes at water works more slowly (dries more long), usually it is necessary to carry out process several times, but to receive uniform coloring of ropes easier. Stain for ropes at alcohol works quickly, but certain skills that coloring of a rope turned out uniform are necessary. The end result in both cases it is possible to receive the identical. 

Hi, Carl, thanks for the comment!   

And it is Montanes guns, trunks are also blackened 20% solution of selenious acid.

Trunk before processing and a blackening.

Hi, Daniel! Here a blackening example with the help of solution of selenious acid of a smooth trunk without a decor (the French gun of a frigate of La Venus).

http://5500.forumactif.org/t549-discussion-generale

Hi, Dafi! 

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/454-24-pdr-bronze-gun-le-fleuron-1729-by-garward-m-124/

New glues and other materials with interesting properties recently began to appear more and more, it is difficult to follow all this!   

By no means, it is a good horse for the purposes. I too sometimes use epoxy glue, but this matter of habit and personal preferences, after all with various materials it is possible to receive very similar results.   

Epoxy has been used for decades throughout the aircraft industry. If it were true that all epoxies tend to crack with time and temperature than all aircraft would be grounded. 

It is true that you can formulate an epoxy that uses the 'wrong' hardener or ratio and result in a brittle mess, but that is not to say it is true in general. I would agree with Augie that for our purposes we don't have to worry about  the occasional mistake of mixing the wrong batch and I have not experienced any real problems with epoxy due to age and temperature. 

I am now retired after having been involved with advanced composites (which included a lot of epoxy applications) for more than forty years both in R&D as well as production.

I was connected some time with nondestructive testing of quality of with advanced composites (which included a lot of epoxy applications), since then I treat them watchfully   

Hi, Sjors! If you decided to remake chainsplate, it makes sense to replace thus also chains with a wire. By the real ships of that era these details didn't produce from chains. Chains which stand, for example, on my Corsair model, on your Corsair and on a number of these models is an imagination of the producer of a kit, no more  .

Probably, we used various grades of epoxy glue, I have generally an experience from the industry. In youth I too was engaged in model aircrafts a little  , at me and now there are a lot of colleagues - aeromodellers, but they generally apply various nitroglues.

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I have to say I've never seen that happen.  But we each have our own experiences.

I also wrote it, relying on the experience of application of various epoxy glues (not only in construction of models) within thirty years   

In chains I applied jeweler mills to drilling of openings.

In the ends openings under fastening to the hull are drilled. 

Ahoy Garward

 

If you are saying that CA might work here too I would agree. I would still perfer epoxy because you can control its final harness by altering the ratio of hardener. CA is brittle and does tend to chip when drilled.

And epoxy glues give too rigid connection which tends to cracks over time, especially under the influence of temperature   

The deadeye and chains are prepared for installation: are tried on on installation sites, are truncated, the ends are riveted.

Deadeye are connected to chains.

As well as at a model choice - to whom what glue is pleasant!