How much Titebond or other glues do you use over a years time?

[bear]

Ahoy Mates

 

Just finished another bottle  8 oz. bottle of Titebond today. Over the past year I have used up a total of 16 oz of Titeband and one  1 oz each of med. and thick CA glue bottles. I am not using CA for anything other than where I have to. Over the last year I have become sensative to its fumes.

 

Just slows down the building, but now I do not have to pry the fingers away from a plank or two.

 

I have found that I am building better by not having to be in a hurry to just hold it down,now I have to plan my clamping more and doing a better job at it.

With CA I have found looking back at what I had done,that I was just depending on holding it in place by my hand instead of clamping,which when it did not harden fast,caused problems with it moving out of place.

 

And using excelerator did not always work out well. I did have a fresh bottle of CA,but do not know its real age.

 

From what I have read latly CA over time has some real problems,in hardening to a brittle point and causing thread to break from also being brittle.

 

What has been your luck or lack of on CA,and how much do you use of these glues? And how about you finger sticking  stories?

 

Keith

 

[mtdoramike]

Well, my wife would answer with THOUSANDS of dollars because she is always pointing out that it seems every time I go to the store, I buy various types of glue. But I look at it more like how much glue do I use per model and that is any where from $100.00 to $200.00 depending on the size, complexity of the model and how low my stash of glue is getting. I use primarily CA glue and have for the past 15 years on well over 20 or so models and have not had any issues with it. But you must understand the basic principles of using CA glues, like fumes, quick set and the ability to make what ever you are gluing at bit brittle at the joint as well as over bloom. I used to use water based glues on hull and deck planking, but I found that it was very messy and would stain the wood, or would not allow wood stains to penetrate the glue and made the finish very poor. I also have CA fingers most of the time, so I know that I'm in the middle of a build.

 

 

Mike   

[hornet]

I try to keep my use of CA glue to an absolute minimum and use only the gel variety (except when fixing copper plates) I have found that quick set PVA glue such as selleys Aquadhere Quickset ( not sure if that available outside Australia) dries enough to hold almost any wood in place in about 2 - 3 minutes. When glueing planks around a bend such as a bow, I use a small amount of CA gel on the end of the plank to give an instant bond and apply Quickset PVA to the rest of the plank. One 500 ml bottle of this PVA Quickset normally lasts me for at least 2 builds.

[hornet]

Brian, was it the quickset variety? It is pretty thin but sets very quickly.

[mtaylor]

Uh... I don't keep track since I really don't want to know. 

[augie]

I'm like Mark.  I don't keep track....but I always have reserve.

 

You can sand the CA off of your fingers with 150 grit sandpaper on a sanding block.  Saves on acetone!

[Ulises Victoria]

Hmmm... hard to tell how much in a year, and it varies from year to year. The year(s) in which I work on hull and decks I use plenty, while in the year I spend in rigging, it's a minimum.  What I can say is that I barely use CA and try to avoid it at all. I use Titebond or Gorilla Wood Glue (not the foaming type) for gluing wood to wood, and 5 min epoxy for dissimilar materials.

[mtdoramike]

hahahahahahaha, yeah, I would probably make a good crook since I usually sand my fingers down about once a week to get the glue off and usually takes off some of the finger prints as well

 

 

Mike 

[Modeler12]

Consider how you use a glue. For those very tiny applications you don't want to dispense directly from a bottle

 

When it comes to epoxy, in particular, I mix small batches with a toothpick on a piece of very smooth scrap wood. I do the same with Titebond or 'carpenters glue' and even CA if necessary. I am a cheap skate and use both sides of the 'scrap wood'.

Round toothpicks are excellent applicators.

But like Ulises mentioned above, if I am building furniture (like the display case in the works for my Connie) I use quite a bit, but still not a whole bottle. I hate scraping glue of my fingers and the work I am doing. The less the better.

Edited February 26, 2015 by Modeler12

[bear]

Ahoy Mates

 

I use a couple of dividers from a parts box as glue boards. They are made out of polyproeleen9sorry about spelling) nothing sticks to this plastic. Either PVA or CA. After the glue dries, I just flex the divider and the glue comes right off. I have about 3 that I use i n tag team manner.

 

Keith

[Canute]

I use pieces of plastic bags as my glue "palette" and like Jay a round toothpick or an unbent paper clip. As that old ad said, "a little dab will do ya". Neatness does count!