Applying contact cement made easy - Cosplay Quick Tip Clip | Cosplay Apprentice
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Using Contact Cement with EVA foam can be stinky, messy, sticky, and hard to apply but in this video I will show you the easy button for applying contact cement to EVA foam for your cosplay armor, especially when you are gluing foam pieces together edge to edge. Enjoy!
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Protip: Get a little plastic sandwich baggie, stretch it over your index finger, and use that finger to smooth out the contact cement after applying it with the little bottle. It's much easier to use your finger to get an accurate spread around your piece, and when you're done you can throw the baggie away and not have to clean off your silicone brush.
Using scrap EVA foam works well, but eventually your scrap foam gets gunked up with glue and it starts bonding to the piece you're actually trying to work on!
i just started using contact cement, and i had the idea to use an oral syringe (meant for liquid medicine) as a container for getting glue out of the jar and also as an applicator!
I tried it once today to test out the idea, and it worked great :D. I was even able to wash the syringe out and keep it for my next project.
Also used a piece of scrap 10mm EVA foam to spread the glue into a nice thin layer
You genius!!! I’ve got a syringe I used to make a natural looking blood spray for a Silent Hill costume, but I don’t have much use for now. I’m going to go use it for contact cement and see how your tip works, thanks!!
I use little bottles that I got at Hobby Lobby and I love it. So much less messy to work with contact cement this way. I also bought a set of wood and metal clay carving tools and I use a wood paddle to spread the glue. Some of the metal tools work well for cleaning grooves cut in the foam.
So awesome!! Yeah, they make a big difference! :) Perfect those carving tools are useful for so many things! :)
Really loving these tips and tricks. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to show us . Much love from the UK xx
Yay! I'm so glad! :) I'll keep them coming, thanks for the encouragement and for tuning in! :)
I’m having to do a few minor repairs to my 8 year old kayak which has had parts come off due to the original adhesive degrading, and per the manufacturer will need to use Weldwood. Your video was very informative. Thanks for sharing.
A respirator, what are you, nuts?
The ringy dingies are the best part of working with rubber cement!🤪😵💫
Each brand of contact cement make a solvent you can add to thin it out when it gets thick.
I'm working on my very first project and this was helpful!
Yay!!! I'm so glad!! Let me know if you have any other questions, and I have lots of other great tips too that can hopefully help as well! :)
im making my first cosplay sword after begging my mother for foam, finally agreed so im binging videos on how to make swords :D
Awesome!!! Checkout my Christmas nutcracker video and one of the three I build in that video is a sword. :)
Awesome! I started using catsup bottles now and low fume cements.
Thanks! Awesome! It makes it much easier right?! :)
My contact cement doesn’t pour. It’s sticky like thick honey. Has it gone bad?
Yes, if it gets that thick it has likely gone bad or gotten too old. It can still work, but not as effectively, and will be a lot messier and make it harder to get clean seams and stuff. You can get a thinner for it to try and reconstitute it but a lot of times it is just easier to get a new can/bottle. Hope that helps :)
@@CosplayApprentice 🙏🏻 thank you
how long should i let the two surfaces sit before i try to stick them together?
Thank you so much! I have been having the hardest time with my glue.. You rock! Totally saved me!
I actually snagged a bag full of small squeeze bottles @my local Goodwill - I was going to use them for pre-mixed paints for acrylic pours, but I like to mix my paint as I need it. I really should put my contact cement in them instead. I bought the can once, but could never get the lid back on tightly & it gooped up way faster than I could use it. I like the little bottles but most of the time the brush falls out of the lid!
Nice! That's a great Goodwill find!!!
That's a great Goodwill find! It works great! To get the can lid to close tight I usually set it on the concrete and tap the lid with a rubber mallet and that seals it pretty well :)
Just bought contact cement for the first time bc I made a pair of platforms with gorilla glue. They didn't last very long lol. So a buddy of mine suggested I use contact cement so here I am, doing my research after I bought the product 😅
Hahaha :) Nice! Yeah, contact cement is pretty amazing!! :)
Contact cement. Also, how to do you get the bits off that show up on the top of the piece? Just sand it off?
Thank you for the tips! I just bought a ton of supplies for my first projects. I did buy a bottle but it is probably way too big. When running to the hardware dtore today, I‘ll be looking into finding a smaller one.
Great video! Any cheaper substitutes for a respirator?
very helpful
What if i open the can and it doensn't all fit in the little bottle? Do you have multiple litle bottles then?
Just poor enough for your current project into the bottle and close the can lid back up for later and you can just refill the bottle when you need to :)
You showed how to apply it but not how to attach it every contact cement is different as sone you have to heat up and to hold it together or leave it over night ext. Thanks but I was hoping for full tutorial
Sorry, I guess I didn’t even realize that I didn’t cover that, I mention that part of process in so many of my videos that I think I just spaced it thinking I had already covered it.
The humidity you live in can change things but for the most part you apply it to both sides of what you are gluing with a thin even coat, thin coat being key. I’ve rarely ever had it take more than five minutes to be ready to stick together. The way to know is that if press it gently with your finger and it it makes a tacky sound when pulling your hand away but doesn’t stick you your finger and pull away like melty cheese then it is ready to go. Some materials will absorb a lot of your first coat so I tend to do a thin coat and once it is set up, do a second thin coat before sticking them together. :)
Lastly, if you wait too long to stick them together they won’t stick together very well, but you can simply run a heat gun across the glued surface to reactivate it and stick them together :)
Hope that helps, sorry I didn’t cover it I. The video, I’ll have to redo that video and make it a full tutorial. I think I saw the most issues happening for people in the application process and putting too much on so I did the video to show an easy application process! :). Thank you so much for your comment and for watching! :) you rock!!!
every time you took the mask back off I gasped 🙊
Just found your channel and subscribed!
Yay!!! Welcome to the Apprenti-squad!! :)
I tried silicone brushes and after waiting 20mins the foam pieces don't stick together.
I found I rarely have to wait 20 mins. It is usually less than 5 mins if you are spreading it thin, it is only a couple minutes. :)
@@CosplayApprentice, thanks. I think I've been waiting 20mins based on something I heard in a different tutorial, but I'll only be waiting 5 mins or so from now on. The problem I'm having is with the silicone brush. When I apply the DAP Weldwood with a silicone brush, the pieces don't stick together even after only waiting 5 mins.
Hey can I use this glue to glue an Eva foam to to artificial turf cuz I used gorilla glue and still doesn’t work
I imagine that that would work pretty well, you have to apply the contact cement to both pieces you are gluing together though :)
What did that cement work to glue on a silicone product to a normal compression shirt?
I don't think so, there is not much that sticks to silicone.
Thanks 👍
What's the best way to get the contact cement into the tiny bottles? Thanks!!
You can make a funnel out of some cereal box cardboard or scrap craft foam or get a silicone funnel :)
When is the best time to use a heat gun to mold ..before or after using contact cement . Will the heat make the contact cement gooey and cause my foam pieces to come apart ??? I've already glued some pieces and I'm afraid to use the heat gun on it 😩
I like to apply my glue and then when it is ready to go heat up my foam avoiding hitting the glued edges with too much heat but a little is not a problem, and then stick the pieces together while the foam is hot/warm. That way it will hold the curve/shape you are putting into by attaching the pieces. :). Once you have them glued together. Give it just a little bit for the glue to set up and then you can heat up the foam again to add any more curve/shape you need to into it. :). Just avoid hitting the seams directly for too long and it won't affect the glue too much :)
@@CosplayApprentice thank you !
Happy to help!!
Hi! Would you recommend smoothing (dremel or sand) any rough edges of foam before applying the glue and pieces together?
question, when should the filters should be replaced after the bag for new one is opened?
Once you start smelling contact cement through the filter or a smell lingers inside them, it's time to change them out
@@CosplayApprentice Thank you so much!!!!
Happy to help! Let me know if you have any more questions! :)
I’m a little late, but any tips for large surfaces?
I’m working on a trident and trying to make a block of foam using my Eva foam pieces, and it just doesn’t want to stick completely
Do two thin coats, spread it really thin with a large scrap piece of foam, make sure you get the glue all the way to the edges.
Big fan bro
Thank you so much!! That means a lot!! :)
I like the ancap thumbnail
good to use contact cement on leather onto plastic? its a car console reno
I know it works well for non-porous surfaces especially with a large surface area but having not tried that specific use case myself I wouldn't be able to say for sure. :)
@@CosplayApprentice person selling me the leather who normally would apply the leather to the plastic console, choose to DYI hopefully not a mistake, said he uses 3M 90 spray and contact cement.
If you have a beard, you can not wear a respirator, it will not seal...you have to have a clean shaven face for good contact withe rubber face mask, the only safe alternative is to wear a Bullard Hood with external filtered air.
do you have to wait for the cement to dry alittle and then put the two pieces together?
Yes, you should wait until when you tap the glue with your finger it makes the sound of walking on a floor that had soda spill and dry on it. :). If the glue comes off on your finger at all it, then it is too early
@@CosplayApprentice thank you
How to remove it if it gets on your fingers or table?
I used contact cement without a respirator or anything but with ventilation right next to me, still stunk a bit but the safety things never said anything at all about harmful fumes to breath, it just said use in a well ventilated room and domt light fires nearby. Am I good?
I'm sure you're fine. If you weren't lightheaded.
If the contact cement starts to harden just add a little acetone and mix it in. WaaLaa... Fresh contact cement ready to use.
how do i get my brush cleaned after applying contact cemment?
If it is a silicone brush you'll be able to peel the contact cement off of it once it dries. :) Any other brush, like a paint brush or anything will be ruined if you use it for the contact cement, you might be able to save it if you soak it in acetone to try and dissolve the glue. Hope that helps
@@CosplayApprentice tnks alot. It really help
How do you clean out your squeeze bottles? Or do you bother?
I use a lot of contact cement on boffer builds, but I honestly hate the stuff. It works really well, but it's such a mess! I haven't found a way to not get it all over my hands (I wear gloves, but I end up getting them stuck to my projects too). I like this idea, but I'm very curious about your clean up techniques, if you have any. Thanks!
So I try to reuse the bottle as much as possible by only adding as much contact cement into it that I think I will use for the next day or two. If you do that it won't get all gunky and plugged up inside the bottle. The nice thing is is that if you way over poured and it ended up drying up on you before you could use it all out of the bottle, they are really inexpensive and so it is not a big hurt to throw it away. You can use contact cement thinner to reconstitute it too if it has gotten too thick in the bottle. So mostly I try not to be too wasteful with the bottles and make them last as long as I can but if they get too bad then I will throw it away if I can't yank the dried contact cement out. With pliers. :).
P.S. little tip, it helps keep you contact cement longer if you use some plumbers tape around the threads of the bottle before putting the lid on. It helps get a better deal and stop the air from getting in as easy to dry it out. :)
Hope that helped answer your questions. :). Can't wait to hear how it works for you! :)
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I broke a part of our electric fan....now I'm here if this contact cement would work, because my dad's gonna kill me if he finds out that the fan is broken ;-;
Shoot :( Fans have a lot of forever when spinning so I don't know if Contact Cement will work. I would use something like fiber fix and that would probably work. :)
It's been 4 months, are you still alive?
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