Removing child’s glue stick glue...grrrr

[Roger Feeley]

My 4 year old grandson brought me one of his wood sculptures that had broken. Last night he tried to fix it with glue stick. Yuck!!

i tried water, paint thinner, acetone and lacquer thinner and the sticky goo was still there. I finally resorted to just sanding off the sticky wood on one piece and sort of mortising the other to get to bare wood,

did I miss a solvent? I’m sure this won’t be the last time I see that stuff. An internet search suggested that the base was PVA so water should have done the trick. But there’s also something in there to keep it soft.

[Stephen Tashiro]

Last night he tried to fix it with glue stick. Yuck!!


What's "glue stick"? Is it a brand name of a glue?

[mike stenson]

Polyethylene glycol is what keeps it soft. Once dried, polymerized acrylics are pretty water proof.

[Roger Feeley]

What's "glue stick"? Is it a brand name of a glue?
a glue stick is like a stick deodorant and about an inch in diameter. It’s for little kids to glue paper projects together. I don’t care for it much and have been introducing my grandson to three glues: wood glue (titebond), super glue and epoxy. If I squeeze it out for him, he’s pretty good at spreading titebond. He can mix epoxy and apply it where I tell him. I don’t let him mess with cyanoacrylate. But, left to his own devices at his house, he still tries to glue things with that cursed glue stick.

[John Goodin]

Just thinking out loud but wonder if heat would soften it enough to scrap off.