If you apply contact cement and press the pieces together while still "wet"
it is possible to slide them around some. As the solvent quickly
evaporates the parts become less pliable.
>Only contact cement (brown rubber or the like) has enough initial tack to
>prevent sliding before the glue fully hardens, but the price is that one
>must put it together perfectly on the first try, as it will not be
>possible to move thereafter. This is very hard to arrange when trying to
>reassemble a broken item, as the broken surfaces are irregular and rough,
>and it takes some fiddling to get the two broken surfaces correctly fitted
>together.
For something like the plaster, maybe a few large rubber bands would work,
or maybe even some yarn.
>Careful fixturing and/or clamping, although sometimes time consuming,
>always works, and allows one to make the necessary final adjustments.
gregg
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