Plastic Resin Glue??

[Rob V]

What exactly is this magical stuff that DM uses?

Is this just normal Hide glue?

[Leon]

Not like hide glue other than color. IIRC DAP Weldwood makes it. It is a brown powder that you mix with water. I recall using it in shop class when I was in school.

[Charlie Self]

Leon responds:

Try:

cannot be legally used in several states so check the on-site info there.

Good stuff where legal. Urea formaldehyde resin.

I'm not sure what the beef against it is in those few states where it can't be sold.

Charlie Self "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country." Ambrose Bierce

[PDQ]

Main complaint with Urea Formaldehyde is it is a carcinogen.

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[Slowhand]

Nope. It's plastic resin glue. It does have a longer open time than say yellow glue but not as long as true hide glue. I use prg to glue up bent laminations. SH

[John]

At what exposure levels?? Or is this one of those Republic of Kalifornia things where just about ANYTHING is a carcinogen in big enough or long enough exposure???

John

[Leon]

Ummm, that is only true in California though, right? ;~)

I have a bag of charcoal that has a warning label for California residents.

[Thomas Bunetta]

[Lee Gordon]

What does it say, "Don't hold briquets in bare hand after you've lit them on fire?"

Lee

[Joe C.]

"Slowhand" yellow glue but not as long as true hide glue. I use prg to glue up bent

For bent laminations, PRG has the added benefit of not being susceptible to creep like a lot of other glues.

[patriarch]

"Leon" wrote in news:ImItd.27936$ [e-mail]:

We're more sensitive than the rest of the world, you know. ;-)

And, after all those labels, desensitized to warnings.

Patriarch

[J. Clarke]

I'm surprised they don't try to hang a warning tag on each oxygen molecule.