Hot glue ?

[Arthur2]

Hi all. I've never used this stuff before. What are its advantages over say conventional wood glue?

Arthur

[robgraham]

Quick setting, and can be softened, and therefore dismantled, with heat - essential if you are making things like violins. Useful f you are doing veneering as the veneer can effectively be ironed on.

Rob

[normanwisdom]

And cleans off nicely with a damp cloth. Or if there are big beads to clean off they can go back in the pot with no wastage. Little or no clamping time - really useful, though sometimes you want to be able to take your time.

cheers Jacob

[Dave]

Ying tong iddle-i po!

From my child hood, I remembered that as Ying tong yiddle I po. A quick google has confirmed that.

Dave

[Brian G]

Arthur,

When you say "hot glue" do you mean the old type animal glue that's boiled up in a double pot or the stuff that is exuded from a hot glue gun?

Brian G

[Arthur2]

Sorry. I should have said, hot glue gun.

Arthur

[m__murray]

I've only used a hot glue gun for one project... gluing drawer kit sides to a thin MDF frame.

The advantage I found was that it formed a glue 'rivet' when extruded through the screw holes.

It also tolerates filling big gaps well, as it sets so quickly.

M.

[Peter Twydell]

In message , Arthur2 writes

One disadvantage is that if you get it on your skin when it's hot, the only way I know to get it off is to remove the skin...

[geoff]

Which just goes to show that "The devil came down to Georgia" can't be true

... where would he be able to practice ?

[Stuart Noble]

Not good for tight fitting joints etc because it tends to occupy more space than pva glues (because it sets so quickly)

[Dave]

I'll bet my brother still has that EP (he is 11 years older than me and was into the goons a lot longer)

Dave

[Dave]

I have often thought about getting a low temp glue gun. Do they stick the same as high temp?

Dave

[geoff]

Childhood ?

I have the original EP about 4 metres from where I'm sitting

[robgraham]

Ahh well, that just goes to show that if you come from the more ancient of the race, you just assume that everyone talks the same language as you !

Rob

[Skipweasel]

Depends what you want to do with it!

It's great for gap-filling. It's great for things that may need to flex or vibrate a bit. It's excellent for rapid work - hold for a few seconds and it's done. It's bloody awful for prolonged loads or safety items - it just falls apart eventually.

What we use ours for most is junk modelling with the kids. Sticking toilet roll tubes to cornflake packets isn't easy with PVA like they use in schools - it takes so long that most five year olds have lost interest before it's stuck. But - do it with hot glue (and yes, you can teach kids to use it safely, both ours manage) and their creativity isn't cramped by having to slow their ideas down to let the medium keep up. Space-ships with dozens of wonderful excressences are possible - if the kid wants a radar dome with multiple blasters and an extra airlock - they can have them in moments. Much fun.

[Skipweasel]

I once had to get a nut and washer along the inside of a long box section at the top of a Renault Espace roof. Way out of reach, but sticking the bits to the end of an unrolled coathanger did wonders - once I'd got it tight I just yanked and the glue broke.

For that sort of thing it's fantastic.

But don't get a large blob of glue on your skin. It really does burn! You can get lowmelt guns for kids to use.

[Arthur2]

Don't start me off please. I have a 5 year old and I know all the words to 'I'm Archie! The Inventor"

Arthur

[Skipweasel]

I don't know, the local toddler's group bought one but someone "borrowed" it before I ever got a chance to play with it!

[Skipweasel]

Ah, well, you'll know all about why hotmelt is so much more immediate than PVA. You can get a lot more building done in the same attention span!

[LSR]

I don't think you're talking about what most people uunderstand by hot glue these days - ie the thermoplastic sticks applied with a gun.