Where to find a rubber glue roller??

[Rob V]

OK - this may seem like a stupid question - but here goes.

Where can I get a rubber glue roller? Something on the order of what David Marks uses or Nahm when he rolls out contact cement?

I got that little bottle w/ roller top from woodcraft and its a POS - doesnt roll at all. I asked to people at the 3 local borgs and just got blank stairs - then pointed me towards the 1/2" nap rollers.

Anycase - any suggestions?

Thanks Rob

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[TWS]

Two choices, you can try a veneer roller - Woodcraft and most of the suppliers carry them. Second choice, I've been told that nap-less paint roller that is made for rolling contact cement works well but I have no experience with this. TWS

[J T]

Tue, Nov 9, 2004, 4:17am (EST+5) [e-mail] (Rob=A0V) mumbles: got blank stairs

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Anycase - any suggestions?

I thought about getting one. Once. Then figured out it probably would be a real PITA to clean. So, now just spread glue with a popsicle stick, piece of wood, or a brush.

JOAT Viet Nam, divorce, cancer. Been there, done that. Now, where the Hell are my T-shirts?

[AAvK]

Is it for contact cement or wood glue? If wood glues, then there are these new paint rollers that are about 4" long and narrower than standard, with a fine thin foam rubber "as bristle" (so to speak). This was shown in the current WWJ magazine about bench making. It's what I will buy soon when I glue up my bench top. Any paint store, home improvement center type of beeswax will have them.

Alex

[firstjois]

How do you clean them off afterwards?

Josie

[Unisaw A100]

I use a roller use for linoleum blocks from a local artist supply store.

UA100

[Gene T]

[Ba r r y]

How about a laminate roller?

Barry

[David E. Penner]

I use a rubber print brayer (roller) from an art store. Come in various widths and clean up easy. Just dump your glue on the boards and roll away.

david

[mac davis]

I've found that for spreading stuff like that, and even wood glue on big areas, a square piece of plastic out of the middle of a coffee can lid works well... sort of like a disposable squeegee...

Sort of like the 3 bears... I tried wood/plywood scraps and they were too stiff... then tried cardboard and if was too soft... the plastic has a nice bend to it with enough stiffness and spring to do a good job as a spreader.. YMMV

[Slowhand]

've used 3 of these disposable rollers for approximately 10 laminate jobs. They probably have 5 jobs left. After I'm done, I let them sit in mineral spirits over night and dry them. Highly reccommend. SH

[TWS]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:16:56 -0800, "Slowhand" They probably have 5 jobs left. After I'm done, I let them sit in mineral

Cool! I'll be using these on my next bent lamination project!

Thanks! TWS

[Unisaw A100]

For yellow glue just rinse under the tap.

UA100

[J T]

Wed, Nov 10, 2004, 12:48am (EST+5) [e-mail] (Unisaw=A0A100) says: For yellow glue just rinse under the tap.

That might be fine, if you've got a tap in the shop. I'd have to make a trip to the house, and by the time I was in a position to do that, I figure the glue'd be too dry for that to work.

Of course, I suppoe you could have a container of water handy to toss it in.

However, I've had very satisfactory results with a brush, so I think I'll just stick with that. Or, a popsicle stick, piece of scrap wood, or stiff plastic (slight problem with the plastic tho, I probably wouldn't have any handy).

JOAT Viet Nam, divorce, cancer. Been there, done that. Now, where the Hell are my T-shirts?

[U-CDK_CHARLES\Charles]

When I was laminating a layer of foam board onto my train table (4x8-ish) I used a plastic notch trowel that I'd rejected for tiling.

The notches left just the right amount of glue for that application.

When I laminated the tabletop for my router bench, I used a roller spreader and found it a bit cumbersome on that large a survace (2x4) but it left a thinner layer that worked better for the material.

[J T]

Wed, Nov 10, 2004, 12:28am [e-mail] (Lee=A0Gordon) asks: If you are gluing laminate, isn't a scrap of that a piece of stiff plastic?

Dunno, I don't use laminates.

But, that reminds me. For a bit, I did use a wide, not real thick, plastic ice scraper for spreading glue on large surfaces. Worked well enough, but then found out that, thinning the glue with water, then using a paint brush, worked a whole lot better, faster, easier.

JOAT Viet Nam, divorce, cancer. Been there, done that. Now, where the Hell are my T-shirts?

[leonard]

the morons at the tool section at the borg did not recognize a tool used by woodworkers , how unique! the borg does carry them but there in the section where the floors are near the vinyl tile and wood floors are.

[My Old Tools]

You can find them on the internet as printers rollers or brayers. Do a search for Brayer. Here is one site