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    Removing child’s glue stick glue...grrrr

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Feeley View Post
    Last night he tried to fix it with glue stick. Yuck!!
    What's "glue stick"? Is it a brand name of a glue?

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    Polyethylene glycol is what keeps it soft. Once dried, polymerized acrylics are pretty water proof.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stephen Tashiro View Post
    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.

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

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