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Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
By:Jay Babina
Date: 9/23/2007, 9:34 am
In Response To: Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste (Dan Caouette (CSFW))

: You bring up a good point, Jay but using your rational we should be using
: epoxy for ALL of our gluing including gluing the strips together...

That's really an excellent point. I guess we look the other way since workability and practacality outweigh the decision. I've used tightbond waterproof glue on strips for a bottle's worth and found it was harder to scrape and sand off and clean my hands and the plane. I went back to regular carpenters glue. But your point is well made. For me mixing a tiny batch of 2 - 1 epoxy takes less than a minute. I just pour two puddles on a paper plate in the proper size and mix them up. Squeezing poly glue out of the clogged nozzle seems to take more time especially if the bottle is cold and the glue is very thick. It always seems the poly gue bottle gets clogged or hard on top once it's open and used.

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Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating stems
Brian -- 9/18/2007, 1:35 pm
Stem Torture Test
Dan Price -- 9/21/2007, 10:38 am
Re: Stem Torture Test
Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2007, 7:40 pm
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Brian Nystrom -- 9/21/2007, 7:53 am
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Robert N Pruden -- 9/21/2007, 1:48 am
Re: Material: You Wanna' what?
Charlie -- 9/22/2007, 7:52 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/22/2007, 9:10 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/22/2007, 9:14 pm
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Carl H -- 9/22/2007, 6:28 pm
Polyurethane glue vs epoxy
Jay Babina -- 9/20/2007, 8:58 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW)------WebKitFormBoundaryC5y+jEM -- 9/20/2007, 10:29 am
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Brian -- 9/19/2007, 12:47 pm
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John Eberly -- 9/19/2007, 11:49 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 9/19/2007, 7:57 am
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TOM RAYMOND -- 9/19/2007, 11:18 am
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Jay Babina -- 9/21/2007, 9:57 am
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Acors -- 9/21/2007, 12:23 pm
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TOM RAYMOND -- 9/28/2007, 11:38 am
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 9/21/2007, 11:26 am
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Jay Babina -- 9/23/2007, 9:34 am
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Mike Savage -- 9/23/2007, 10:52 am
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Charlie -- 9/21/2007, 10:29 am
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 9/19/2007, 12:28 pm
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Mark Rakestraw -- 9/19/2007, 6:30 am
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Carl H -- 9/18/2007, 9:03 pm
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Bill Hamm -- 9/18/2007, 6:10 pm
Re: Material: Polyurethane glue for laminating ste
Dan Price -- 9/18/2007, 2:27 pm