Am I the only one who has trouble using tip top glue?
I'm using the melt and use type of tip top glue and this stuff is tough to use. It seems to cool very fast. I also had a very hard time getting any into the opening of the tip top. Here's what I ended up doing, tell me if I messed up (but it did hold). I rolled a rice grain size piece of glue and pushed it into the tip top opening, then coated the blank tip with glue. I then heated them both and pushed them together. Here's teh funny thing, I had to hold the tip top onto the blank for about 15 seconds because as I pushed it all the way on, if I let go too quick, it would kinda slide off, like there was some kind ogf pressure inside the tip top. Am I an idiot, or is this some kind of heat, expansion, physics thing.
Sincerely, your slightly neurotic, but well meaning, neighborhood rod building newbie, and fly fishing nutcase.
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