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Maybe Walter can add to this, but I would shy away from some of the hardware store options based on nothing more than the vile smell of some of them! The zap Z-Poxy five minute is best in my opinion. The 30 minute is more brittle and if you use a disc sander to clean the ends of the prepared blanks, it will tend to clog your abrasive more than the five minute. You can get good adhesives from model shops that are more cost effective (cheap!) than the woodturning outlets. I use Cyano Glue, Activator Kicker Epoxy ZAP Bullet Tape covering Adhesives but there are others. Check out the building materials sections of these websites whilst you are there, they sell brass tubing as well that is useful for the unobtainable replacements for some kits although someone, if not I, will issue a warning of tube thickness being different, but Ive never had a problem.


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