r rep I would never need another general adhesive, and I could get rid of m y PL400, my carpenter's glue, and even some of my masonry glue that I use. Man was I excited.
. Sometimes not at all. Guys in the woodturning club told me about failur es. The reps came back down and told us we needed to "wet" the surfaces wi th water before applying the glue.
I don't know what instructions were on the bottles back then, but the wetti ng of the surfaces is clearly mentioned on the bottles these days.
"Lightly dampen bonding surfaces with water."
I'm not propping the stuff up, just saying that maybe the guys didn't RTFM.
art, and I gave away all but one of my sample bottles to others. They didn 't get satisfactory bonding, either.
n't hold when it is supposed to, and does when you want it to."
es for the weekend warriors, and put the rest of the stuff we all used back out for sale.
, I almost always use a good one hour epoxy that I buy at a local hobby sto re. At the hobby store, it is inexpensive and haven't had a failure yet. I f you have a day or two to let it set while you do other things, you can sa nd it smooth and do some light shaping as well.