Why does Gorilla glue suck?

Maybe not, they could be on leave from their school (pod) for some post dock work in foreign/primative languages or primate studies.

ARM

In some ways, that's an even more disturbing thought.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

I had never meant for my signature to inspire conversation, either. It was just supposed to be there, innocently lurking below my name. Perhaps to be read, mostly to be ignored. Never to be its own thread....

I couldn't agree more, that the conversation here should be about woodworking. I am really wishing I hadn't chosen what turned out to be such a volatile signature.

david

Because they may be insecure with their beliefs and probably need that constant reminder.

Or perhaps they're trying to give a constant reminder to others. After all, the US media and public have a very short memory :-).

When one of those WMD's that got taken to Syria before the war started, ends up shoved up your A**, you will know where they are.

See what you made me do? I couldn't hold back when you so immaturely presented such a large target.

Or, perhaps they want to offer an opposing viewpoint to an opinion already offered.

;-)

djb

IMHO they were either moved out early or were destroyed when we pounded the area.

LOL!!! I just found out milk makes a good monitor cleaner. ARM

How tight was the clamping pressure?

Rick

Nope, during college I worshipped at the Altar of the Porcelain God quite a bit.

OK, I'll bite. #1 son? ARM

I've used GG for a number of outdoor applications and have had no problem. Remember that per the instructions, apply the glue lightly to one of the two surfaces and apply water lightly to the other. The glue draws its moisture from that water, and will expand to about 4x its original volume. Then clamp tightly for 1-4 hours. The end grain to end grain joint isn't very strong, but it should have held better than what you've described if the glue was properly applied.

Yeah, right...

djb

"Jack of All Trades" (JOAT) has a current sig of "If we're all God's children, what's so special about Jesus?" If I were a Christian, I imagine it would be very tempting to write a long ranting response explaining what was so special about Jesus. Since I'm not, I feel no such compulsion, but I keep expecting that sig to generate a huge thread.

Heck, maybe it's just about to do so. :)

-BAT

I think there may be a couple things going on here. First, an end grain joint is inherently weak. I know, I know, one side is edge grain, but a joint hath two sides, and is only as strong as its weakest component. Second, and this is speculative because I obviously didn't see you glue the joint, it sounds like, perhaps because of your prior troubles, you may have used TOO much water. As others have indicated, PU works best in the presence of MOISTURE. I've seen people really dousing the wood prior to using this stuff (again, I'm not saying YOU did this). Just a very light misting of water from a spray bottle is MORE than enough.

For an end grain joint like this, I would use epoxy. Or some mechanical assistance.

One other thing: If it's hard maple, my experience with that wood has been that, particularly when it's sanded, it can become almost "burnished" so that it does not absorb stain, for example, easily. I'm wondering whether whatever quality that causes that also affects its "glue-ability?"

I tried the glue on the liner of my eyeglass case. I moistened one side and gorilla the opposite side. I clamped the 2 sides together. I thought great! The next morning the liner popped open and came right apart. Gorilla glue is deficient! Im very disappointed. 😕