Carl Beckett
03-21-2012, 9:45 AM
Was making a little jig for a chair project ongoing, and needed to fasten some mdf together. Normally I just screw it but this was going into the edge of a narrow piece and it would split for sure if screwed.
So I used Liquid nails. The heavy duty version (903? I believe it was) The formula has changed and they now have a zillion different flavors, and I havent found one that works very well for anything.
So I put it together and clamp it and leave it a couple days. Came back to it yesterday and unclamped it and picked up the fixture and it fell completely apart just picking it up! Dismal! And I didnt even need to scrape the old dried glue off for regluing, it just peeled right off no problem. No adhesion whatsoever!
This time I tried yellow Titebond. (honestly dont know if this will work any better, but it cant be worse)
(Im throwing all of my Liquid nails stuff away - it will just end up causing me grief when I think its doing something but its not). They no longer make the original, which I used for all kinds of stuff. So now a quest for a new general purpose glue (for doing stuff that you really shouldnt be trying to glue together, but that I do anyway)
I know there is another brand that might be promising (it had a blue tracer streak in it when dispensed) - will look for that.
So I used Liquid nails. The heavy duty version (903? I believe it was) The formula has changed and they now have a zillion different flavors, and I havent found one that works very well for anything.
So I put it together and clamp it and leave it a couple days. Came back to it yesterday and unclamped it and picked up the fixture and it fell completely apart just picking it up! Dismal! And I didnt even need to scrape the old dried glue off for regluing, it just peeled right off no problem. No adhesion whatsoever!
This time I tried yellow Titebond. (honestly dont know if this will work any better, but it cant be worse)
(Im throwing all of my Liquid nails stuff away - it will just end up causing me grief when I think its doing something but its not). They no longer make the original, which I used for all kinds of stuff. So now a quest for a new general purpose glue (for doing stuff that you really shouldnt be trying to glue together, but that I do anyway)
I know there is another brand that might be promising (it had a blue tracer streak in it when dispensed) - will look for that.