Highway Pioneers plastic question

[Nortley]

Sometimes I'll pull an ancient kit from the stash and see what I can make of it. I have started a Gowland & Gowland/Revell Highway Pioneers Fiat  tourer, date on the instructions is 1953.  Someone had started it, but the well dried glue residue peeled off easily.  I tried Testors and Tamiya liquid cements, neither would bite into the plastic to make a joint.  The instructions said to use "model airplane cement" or acetone.  I tried the acetone, which bit into the plastic, but I question the strength of the joint.  The plastic seems slicker and different from styrene, so I'll try ABS cement next.  Has anyone else ran into such a situation?  Any ideas?  

[Ron Bell]

Try one of the plastic "welders". Plastruct makes two and Micromark makes a product called "same stuff". It's the same formula as Tenax 7 and works a treat on every plastic I've tried it on. 

[noelsmith]

Gowland had quite a range of model cars back in the day.

Like Ron I use Plastruct' s Plastic Weld and find it good for many plastics.

[Nortley]

I tried Styrene Tack It 2, a Tenax knock off, it smelled right but didn't even mar the surface.  5 minute epoxy seems to be working. The kit has sat somewhere since I was 5 years old, so I'm not rushing the job.  The good news is that AV primer sticks, and the paint on to that.

 

Edited March 15 by Nortley

[Ron Bell]

Have you tried an ABS cement such as is used on Plastruct materials? The plastic has a different chemical basis so "normal" cements don't work. Plastruct makes two cements, one is specifically for ABS plastic. Rubicon models are made of a plastic that does not respond to "normal" cements either, but ABS ones work fine.