Perhaps I was wrong in buying this and should have gotten the green bottle of regular Tamiya extra thin instead.

Brilliant Laurie...I use that already to secure all mats for cats to their favorite surfaces. Now my bottles will be done the same way. The extra thin cement is easy to use once you get the hang of it. With traditional liquid cement, you would apply the cement to a part and then you would attach it where it belongs. With extra thin cement, the steps are a bit different. The difference is only in the proportion of components for the glue 50% to 50% for the cleaner 49% to 51% (as far as I can remember, but I may be wrong - the memory can malfunction), as for me 1% is not a very big difference. If you leave the glued parts alone long enough before handling them again, the bond is very strong and it is in fact almost impossible to cleanly separate them again. This is due to the fact that the cement essentially melts the plastic and the parts fuse together once the chemicals evaporate.However there is a simple solution. I am your saviour Mark. I will let you into the secret. It is called ---- no no not yet. I found out the hardware store here sells MEK (but in 3.5 litre tin) so I am going to get it, mix with the Acetone I have lying around the house. If you did, you could use their airbrush cleaner instead, which contains the same solvents in an almost identical ratio. I began searching for the ingredients and found the MSDS. So sharing here for record and in case others want to know.

Mixed them and tried them firstly to join some plastic pipe and then to fix together some kit parts. Liquid type plastic cement that is designed to work with plastic models and other similar plastic materials found in model making. This EXTRA THIN formula cement is used to glue together plastic model kits that use polystyrene plastic. The extra thin formula allows the modeler to glue together small pieces that require pin point accuracy and finesse. Great advantage is you can with one hand open & close bottle tops. Easily attached equally easily removed. It is the wonder of the century.Like its earlier counter part, it stinks to high heaven due to the solvent levels. Prolonged use does give headaches so that has to be factored in when using it. Limonene is a chemical added to change the smell to stop solvent abuse or remove the strong smell so its more friendly to children. As you would probably expect, there are differences in the chemical compounds used to produce these two types of cement. I've used MEK before with excellent results - that's just MEK with no Acetone admixture. It's pretty volatile so good ventilation is a must. In the past, when I was young and daft, I've even used it to attach canopies with no problems