DCC Impulses Column - 5
Faller Expert cement for light bars
Use gravity to your advantage
Here is a two for one: two techniques shown in one photo.
A recent installation needed a shortened light bar with the
LED (12 volt version) glued to the shortened light bar.
I use Faller
Expert cement
(see next tip
too) in cases like
this. It is methyl
chloride, like
most styrene
cements. Where
it differs is that
it includes a
large percent-
age of styrene.
This allows it to
make an optical surface. To create this assembly, I used the cut-
off wheel in my motor tool to cut the light bar and to square off
the front of the LED.
My assembly tool was gravity. I put the LED in a vise and
stood the LED lightbar on top in a pool of Faller Expert
cement. Gravity held it in place until it was dry.
Faller Expert dries more slowly than similar styrene cements
without the added styrene.
8
8: Using my vice to hold the LED while
gravity does its job.
MRH-Jun 2013
