Trying to create a model Stonehenge!
It was when I was in my 7th or 8th grade and I had to help my younger sister for the school exhibition. She had come to me for opinion and help in making a model. I thought of doing the miniatures of the wonders of the world like pyramid, Stonehenge etc. we started with the Stonehenge. As I thought it was easy and just a couple of irregular rectangular blocks arranged in a circular pattern, it turned out to be nightmare for me. The material chose to use for the model was thermocol. It was easy to shape and to color, then it came to the part of arranging these ?stones? in the manner they were supposed to be. The base I used was a hard board. And I colored it green so as to mimic the green grass environment. Then being all peaceful and almost ready with the first model I was relaxed and took the best adhesive I had in my home. Yeah, the adhesive was super strong not to mention it was even used to glue leather, carpets to the floor etc.
Knowing its strength I was so thrilled and confident (about the sticking part). I just used a drop of the adhesive on the bottom of each piece of thermocol and I left it to cool and get bonded nicely. Little did I know that the adhesive was simply too strong that it actually burned a hole through the thermocol on contact. By the time I retuned to have a look and the finished structure, the Stonehenge had ?Fallen?. The Stone structures supposed to be standing upright had fallen and lay flat on the lush green ground. Then I had to redo the whole model again and this time I was careful on choosing the adhesive. I had taken 3 to 4 types of adhesive available in home and tested each on a waste piece of thermocol. Sadly it turned out only the one I used created such a mess and a simple glue used for papers would have been enough to hold the thermocol to the base. Anyway after the discovery of the immense strength of that adhesive I had used before, I did try out some more ?magical burning? of the thermocol with the glue on it. It was pretty awesome to me that time.