Hi all,
Haven't posted here in quite some time but I've got a question.
I also have not built any arrows for about a year and a half or better. Yesterday I wanted to fletch up a couple and found my tube of Duco had gelled up to the point I couldn't use it. Today I went to Wallmart where I've always gotten it before and they didn't have it. Checked the hardware, automotive, sporting goods and craft sections. No Duco.
Right next to Wally World is a Lowe's (imagine that...) so I went in there just knowing they'd have it for sure. Nope. Asked the guy working that section and he didn't know what Duco was! I was trying to explain to him and he had no clue. Finally I said "Duco Cement! You know, like model airplane glue?" Still nothing and he looks at the shelf and says "guess we don't carry it."
Tell me Duco is still available!!!
On a positive note, I did buy a bottle of Lock-tite professional super glue and gave it a try. It's a lot thinner so you can't put a nice fat bead of glue on the fletch or it will run off. I did find that if I just put a skim coat of super glue on the fletch and then put the jig clamp in place and pushed down for about 20 seconds, it would be done and I could pull the clamp. Super glue is not a glue that "air dries". It dries faster under pressure when the glue line is "thinned". If you glob it on and don't use pressure, it takes quite a while to dry. Honestly it worked pretty darned good but it's too thin to do the drop of glue on the leading edge thing like I've always done with my Duco to smooth the transition.
I get mine at Ace Hardware or Family Dollar stores. Family Dollar is alot cheaper
Try Ace or Tru-Value hardware.......
Family Dollar is the best source. If that doesn't work, let me know.
True Value
Wall mart won't sell it cause the kids are sniffing it! It is still available at hardware stores.
Just another way drug addicts are ruining our economy.
Fear not! As said above, its out there, just hiding.
QuoteOriginally posted by sunset hill:
I get mine at Ace Hardware or Family Dollar stores. Family Dollar is alot cheaper
Same here. I think I got it last year for a buck and tax at the Family Dollar.
just bought some last week at Family Dollar
Yeah Dave, do a search, this has been asked alot this past year! :bigsmyl:
Ace hardware!
Bisch
Fletch tape then a dot of Duco from Family Dollar fore and aft. :coffee:
WalMart doesn't stock, but like the others said, find an ACE hardware or lumber yard, they stock it.
I heard Walmart wasn't selling it any longer because Duco wanted them to sell at a price in line with other vendors. They wouldn't do it so Duco dropped them.
I now purchase it at a local lumber yard/hardware store.
Guy
QuoteOriginally posted by ron w:
Try Ace or Tru-Value hardware.......
+2 Some hobby stores have it also.
duco for spotting feathers fore and aft, but bohning fletch tape for fletching feathers on ALL shafts. :thumbsup:
I have noticed they changed the Duco formula. Used to be it got thicker over time(I use a clear glue bottle), now it gets thinner, to an almost water like consistency which makes it a little harder to use and not have it drip off what you are gluing.
last time I saw it at wally World, it was in the paint department. They didn't have any last time I was there, though.
If you find it at family Dollar, buy a bunch. The dopers are really screwing us up, and you may have to sign your life away to buy it in the future, just like Sudafed cold medicine.
Target carries it here, dont know if you have target stores there.....I just bought 3 tubes for less than 5 bucks.....
I have noticed product availability in a lot of items is not always consistent at Wal-Mart. We have three here locally and all three carry distinctly different product lines. They all have sporting sections but only one really has a hunting section and still sells guns. All depends on demand. 5 people buy duco out of 1000 shoppers....equals no duco for sale there. Just a guess.
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Hey Dave :wavey: Been wondering how you have been..?
To answer your question, the wallyworld on 24 just west of the G Y plant has had it but last I bought was from Ace hardware. I think Mike at The Nocking Point had some last time I was there too...
I hit the "family" dollar and found it for 1.25 and then noticed it at Oriellys auto parts for 2 bucks.... later in the day...
I recently saw it at a Family Dollar store here in Mississippi.
Dave
weston has a do it best hardware store that carries it. I'll second the fletch tape. Besides that way I'm supporting mike at the nocking point. U been hunting lately?
I still Swear By Saunders NPV Fletching Glue!!! It IS The BOMB!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
QuoteOriginally posted by Fletcher:
Family Dollar is the best source. If that doesn't work, let me know.
x2
Went to an ACE today and all they stock is the plastic model Duco. Not the original. I asked, they don't handle the original any more.
So, we have an UPDATE!!!!!!
Paul/KS and Chris, how's things?
I've been real good other than crushing three fingers on my left hand back in July. If I was a lefty I'd have been in trouble for shooting as it was index, middle and ring fingers crushed from the last joint out to the tip. They are doing pretty good now but the middle finger break never grew back together because the bone was misaligned and the doctors said due to being crushed, they couldn't put a pin in it. Doesn't hurt and range of motion is about 98% but I can feel the stub of the broken bone in the middle of my finger pad. Supposedly it will eventually form a "fibrous bond" out of scar tissue but that could take close to a year or so.
Haven't been bow hunting much at all this year but have been putting all my effort into getting my kids out with rifles. At 10 years old, Emmett can't pull a hunting weight bow but he can pull a trigger! He got a real nice 9 point on the first day of the youth season up at the north end of Smithville lake. One shot at 72 yards. But I'll leave that story for another time in deference to the forum rules here.
I did have a little buck come in to my Montana decoy Wednesday evening but he was only a 3x2 so not legal. Sure was funny seeing him react to the decoy. He got in to about 15 yards from my tree and looked right at me. Then he looked at the decoy, back at me, back at the decoy, at me etc 4 or 5 times then he just "shrugged" and walked to the decoy. Same thing happened last year with a little buck. Both were pulled off course from about 70 or 80 yards out. Both came in and picked me off in my tree and both did the "look back and forth" thing then decided it was okay and came right in to the decoy. As far as I'm concerned, they work!
Never had a mature buck come in yet but the little guys are fooled.
Dave and all, I have two other glues to suggest if you cannot find what you want. I Owned a bow shop and fletched thousands of arrows. I found a cement that is so strong that you cannot pull a fletch off an arrow after it has been out in the weather a year. Its called 3M super household adhesive. It is the ultimate fletch glue. After I started using it in never had one customer complaint out of hundreds of dozens of arrows delivered.,
Another that will work great and is extremely fast is Gorilla Super Glue with rubber added. It is a gel super glue and is much thicker than what you tried.
God bless and good luck, Steve
Steve, thanks for the leads. What finishes are those glues compatible with?
Guy
Grey, I have used the 3M on just about everything including carbon. I would imagine that the Gorilla super glue will stick about anything too. I have not tried it on a lot of different finishes though.
I do use it on bow tips and some overlays including antler . I have never lost a bow tip with it and that says a lot. It is impact resistant and really sticks. It is a gel so not nearly as runny as regular super glue types.
As to the 3m. I lost an aluminum arrow up in the high mountains. Found it next year after 12 ft of snow had melted off and I could not pull the fletches. I had to cut them off . It drys flexable and seems to hold forever without drying hard and brittle.
God bless you all, Steve
Thanks very much for the info, Steve.
I've located the Gorilla Glue but 3M has an extensive and somewhat confusing array of adhesives. Do you by any chance have a product number or something for that one?
Thanks, Guy
3M Super Strength Houshold Adhesive.
Thanks for the tip Sixby!
I just bought some at a ACE. Couldn't find it at Lowes, Walmart or the farmers store. Very happy with this product and don't plan on changing, that's my mind set.
Hey Dave,
Sorry to hear about your fingers Amigo. Glad you are getting out to hunt despite the injury.
Wish you would send some of those slow witted young bucks west... :)
Hunt safe and have a Happy Thanksgiving.
Paul
Just a word of caution. I fletch taped this fall. Never had problems in the past. Had all my feathers fall off. If u use it be certain its compatible. It works well with epoxy finish not for a hill of beans on water based.
I bought two tubes of Duco Cement at the Family Dollar store (not to be confused with Dollar General) in Red Oak, TX for $1.29 each. It's the only place that I know of that carries it locally. Otherwise, I've bought it before from 3Rivers, another sponsor on here.
Curious to try that 3M Super Adhesive, though. The prolonged and intense Texas summer time heat did a number on some of the fletchings on which I used the Bohning fletch tape.
I bought a tube of the 3M super household adhesive from Kmart about 10 years ago, its in the black tube right? I didn't really get a chance to try it, it sat in the tool box for years and then it dried.
I remember it was kinda pricey. Duco is so cheap and so good, its hard to beat. Thank you for the tips on the Family Dollar.
Still made and yes Family dollar has it for real cheap! Shawn
Just a word of caution. I fletch taped this fall. Never had problems in the past. Had all my feathers fall off. If u use it be certain its compatible. It works well with epoxy finish not for a hill of beans on water based.