Target Paste

[avogunner]

One of the great "benefits" of being a USMC Pvt. is that you often had the honor of being assigned to any one of a myriad of details that required physical labor around the base. In the late 70's, i would often find myself sent to the range to build targets. We'd build/repair the frames, attach the hard cardboard backers, and then paste the targets on. Does anybody know the formula for that paste? I've tried water/flour but is "isn't right", as it dulls the black target centers and also it doest hold the paper on the cardboard well.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Semper Fi

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[starnbar]

Try your paint store for wallpaper paste that is close to what you were using.

[country gent]

We used wall paper paste most of the time at Camp Perry it did good as long as you didn't get it to heavy. In wet weather 3M aresol adhesive works good also

[jsizemore]

There are 2 types of pre-mixed wallpaper paste. The first is for sticking paper to the wall. It works as long as the paper doesn't get wet. The second is border paste. Once dry it's almost impossible to get off. Both come in pint and quart containers. Thinned Elmer's wood glue works too

[country gent]

I always like the canvas backers over the hard cardboard ones. canvas was thinner and the glue seemed to bond better to it.

[Bookworm]

To quote the late Walt Kelly - "This is a job for library paste."
....which can no longer be found because a generation of baby-boomer kindergartners ate it.

I know I had my share......

[bedbugbilly]

Bookworm . . . . . . . . but it was so much better than the school lunches!

[Mk42gunner]

We used either flour and water or if someone wanted to spend money, wall paper paste. Either one works, it just takes a bit of trial and error with the flour and water.

Robert

[avogunner]

Follow-up...............got some border paste and it works like a champ. Thanks Gents!
Semper Fi.

[TexasGrunt]

Does it taste the same?

[OS OK]

To quote the late Walt Kelly - "This is a job for library paste."
....which can no longer be found because a generation of baby-boomer kindergartners ate it.

I know I had my share......

OMG! . . . I forgot about that! Never saw anyone munching on the glue brush but the teacher always gave the warning..."Don't eat your glue!"

I used to think to myself..."Why the heck would I want to eat my glue?"

[avogunner]

Does it taste the same?

Ha, ha, ha!!!!! I was a dumb Pvt. but not quite that dumb.....well, at least I didn't think so.

[Tom W.]

Everyone ate paste, except for the snooty girls.......

[OS OK]

No...everyone didn't eat their glue! Some of us were born with 'common sense'!

[Tom W.]

Oh? Name one..

[Silvercreek Farmer]

We had this huge tub of paste in preschool that lasted my entire tenure. Consumption was usually the result of a dare.

[Outpost75]

Everyone ate paste, except for the snooty girls.......

Half dried out paste you could roll it between your palms and make huge boogers with it to throw at the snooty girls.

Also put dabs on our faces to dry out and make huge cancerous zits so that we looked like zombies before it was cool...

[David2011]

I used to think to myself..."Why the heck would I want to eat my glue?"

My thought exactly.

[Bookworm]

OMG! . . .

I used to think to myself..."Why the heck would I want to eat my glue?"

But, it smelled so good !!!!

[OS OK]

Yes, can't argue that...it did smell good, but...that little voice inside kept saying..."Don't you do it!"