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Larry Temins
09-03-2011, 11:09 AM
I have a slightly misaligned drawer runner which I need to straighten out. unfortunately it is both screwed into the legs and held with Titebond liquid hide glue against the lower side rail. Has anyone had success is loosening a Titebond liquid hide glue joint and if so any advice on how best to approach it?
thanks in advance
Larry
Chris Fournier
09-03-2011, 12:00 PM
Clothes iron on hi heat on th erunner would do it. Use a spatula on the glue line to run down the joint. Alternatively you can just use a hot spatula on the glue line.
Howard Acheson
09-03-2011, 12:26 PM
In our shop we used to open hide glue joints with an infrared heat lamp. Direct the light at the joint and keep an eye on it.
Larry Temins
09-04-2011, 10:17 AM
Chris/Howard,
thanks for the quick responses. I will try using heat + spatula on the glue line.
larry
Larry Temins
09-04-2011, 4:14 PM
Chris/Howard,
Success!!! I used a heat gun and a thin spatula to run down the glue line as suggested by Chris and it worked quite well.
thanks again.
Larry
Chris Fournier
09-04-2011, 4:54 PM
That's great. When you've made all the mistakes that I have, you'll have quite the collection of fix-it tricks. I'm not sure why I continue to make the same mistakes over and over though...
Repair work forces you to learn un-do-its, any opportunity that you have to talk to a conservator or repair specialist take it and do whatever you have to to keep them talking. These folks have repair chops that you'd never even think of!
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