07-05-2009, 08:55 AM
Gary, one way to get some "fiddle time" when using contact cement is to place a sheet of waxed paper between the two surfaces to be joined. Because it's semi-transparent, you should be able to line things up, then slide the paper out. It helps, of course, if you've pre-fitted the brick sheet so that you can rest it either on the "ground" or against temporary stops installed at the top of the plywood sub-walls - that way, you need be concerned with only the lateral alignment.
If your "brick" sheet is flexible enough to bend around the corners, it sounds as if it may be the Holgate & Reynolds product - there's no need to use lacquer thinner on this material, as, if I recall correctly, it's impervious to the thinner.
Wayne
If your "brick" sheet is flexible enough to bend around the corners, it sounds as if it may be the Holgate & Reynolds product - there's no need to use lacquer thinner on this material, as, if I recall correctly, it's impervious to the thinner.
Wayne
