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does anyone know the best thing to use is after the adhesive has been used up? i have had this trick for a long time now but do not know what to use. Also is it better with the pom-pom or does it make it harder to load?

The blurb with The Web suggests it's a special adhesive developed for the trick but that might be a bit of hype as I'm sure a decent Arts & Craft Shop or large DIY Store would offer a replacement substance of similar stickiness. Possibly the kind used in heavy duty sticky pads used for mounting items on display boards? After all, it's not as though the item weighs a lot so most adhesives would probably do. (Apart from Superglue which would work but might upset your spectator a bit when they have to go home wearing the 'item'.)

The use of the pom pom is optional but it does make the item look more realistic - if you lose yours you can get bags of the things in different sizes and colours from craft shops and also places such as The Works cheapo bookshops.

I am guessing here as always (have you noticed?) but that sounds like something I used to use for holding models for painting, games workshop sold it as I remember
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Thanx! very much i will have t look into it further

anyone know where i can get a replacement spider?!?! mine came with a leg missing and i could do with getting another...

Woolworths, Joke shops, Toy shops - all might be able to provide something suitable. (A seven legged spider - probably worth a fortune!)

Sorry in advance but I've been tainted by other threads today.....

What do you call a fly with no wings?
A wriggle.

I know

Sorry to be pedantic bab, but a fly with no wings is "a walk". A wriggle would presumably be a fly without either wings OR legs..... yeh I've got it + am already half way out the door...

No! it's what do you call a fly with no wings and no legs?

a!

I don't know the effect in question, but from what yankeetom said, you might like to try Glue Dots. I know you can (or could until very recently)get these from Lakeland Plastics in two types. One is flat and, I suspect, not going to be what you need. The other is like a small gel disc (perhaps like a pastille that's been in your mouth a good while - nice image), designed to allow a 3D effect when sticking things onto cards. They come on a roll, in a box that acts as a dispenser.

The advantage of Lakeland is that they do mail order.

The second option sounds very much like it - thanks!

yeah thanyou very much I will have to try that.

I was pretty close to running out of Adhesive, after contacting Jim Pace he recommended that I use Glue Dots - www.gluedots.com from my local Craft Store - Red Box w/ White Top Label. I was also recommended that I contact customer service from www.llpub.com because they sell 4 sheets of replacement adhesive for $2-US.

Hope this helps...

Curle1s wrote:Glue Dots

I'll look into those, thanks. I bought The Web a few days ago and, reading the posts above, think is comes with a different adhesive now. The one included was a square of soft, clear, sticky plastic - rather like double-sided sticky tape, really. You know what would work exactly the same, I reckon (and be oddly fitting)? Fly paper.

In other fascinating news, I've done this trick twice - both times yesterday - and was rumbled both times. The first time, on my eldest son (13), I'd scarcely done the load. The instant it touched he said, 'There's something sticky on my hand.' And I mean the instant it touched: I'd brought my hand up under his - 'to reposition it slightly' - and this was the very moment of contact. He said, almost guiltily, 'I'm really sensitive to anything sticky on my skin. I always know right away.' The second time was on my girlfriend. She knew something had been put there right away too, though she was still quite surprised to see the spider - she said that , the moment she felt the touch and was aware something was on her skin, she thought, '...it was something like that ash trick.'

Now, I honestly am not clumsy with the load (pressing too hard, for example, or not being entirely casual about it). I also made sure I was going straight into the distracting 'Look, I have four blank cards...' bit, very, very rapidly, the moment the casual, not-pressing-too-hard load was done. Even given my eldest son's wonderful superpower to immediately be aware of adhesives, and my girlfriend knowing only one trick, and that's the ash trick (which she'll actually do on people herself) - so it was almost her specialist subject - I'm convinced (as I was before I bought it, to be honest) that this trick must fail a lot. In fact, I'd guess it must fail six to seven times out of ten, right?