Sniffing Tamiya Threadlock...

[casethejoint 299]

The blue stuff. Yes, I know I have a problem but is it just me?

Not sure if it's nostalgia or genuinely just a great smell. No idea what the active stuff is in it - nothing else smells remotely like it.

[Busdriver 6270]

A&E might be more appropriate than Tamiyaclub!!! 

[Nick-W 1770]

2 hours ago, casethejoint said:

The blue stuff. Yes, I know I have a problem but is it just me?

Not sure if it's nostalgia or genuinely just a great smell. No idea what the active stuff is in it - nothing else smells remotely like it.

I prefer the strawberry one. 

[Willy iine 18823]

2 hours ago, casethejoint said:

The blue stuff. Yes, I know I have a problem but is it just me?

Not sure if it's nostalgia or genuinely just a great smell. No idea what the active stuff is in it - nothing else smells remotely like it.

I like it too.. brings me back to the 80's.  

[Saito2 7242]

Its not just you. The vintage blue stuff smells great. The red just isn't the same.

[toyolien 5490]

 

[casethejoint 299]

9 hours ago, toyolien said:

 

Oh wow, look at that - definitely not alone then!

Who'd have thought there be duplicate forum thread issues on this topic?! Just goes to show, Tamiya smell is important.

[toyolien 5490]

2 hours ago, casethejoint said:

Oh wow, look at that - definitely not alone then!

Who'd have thought there be duplicate forum thread issues on this topic?! Just goes to show, Tamiya smell is important.

I know that's what I though. I assumed I was the only one that decided to see what it smelt like😁

[Mad Ax 10028]

I had a tube of the blue stuff in my tool box way back when I first returned to RC over 15 years ago.  It got hot in the sun one afternoon and the tube expanded and leaked everywhere.  Even now, the inside of my toolbox still emit that blue threadlock smell.

Last year a bottle of tyre glue decided to leak in the heat as well, and all my stuff came out stuck together in one big homogenous bundle.  So now it smells like a mix of blue threadlock and tyre glue.

Hopefully they aren't a dangerous combination.

[Willy iine 18823]

I have an unopened tube NIB from my XR311 kit..   now everyone is jelly.  

 

[87lc2 2781]

Yup, smells great.  Right up there with the smell of new kit tires   Tamiya tires just smell different.