What to do if you have a problem with glue?
Thankfully though, there are plenty of solutions, too. If you find yourself facing an adhesive dilemma, or simply want to find out if there’s a better, more cost-effective adhesive available for your packaging needs, Glue Machinery’s Glue Diligence program can help.
What happens if you use the wrong glue pattern?
Also, if you use the wrong glue pattern you could be wasting money creating less-than-ideal package bonds. To determine your ideal glue pattern, figure out what you want your end user to experience.
What happens when you put glue on a wood joint?
The first layer of glue tends to soak quickly and deeply into the joint, which can starve the glueline nearly instantly. However, the thin first coat that quickly dries will saturate the wood fibers to prevent soaking or wicking, but still provide a bonding surface for your second coat of glue.
What’s the difference between gluing and glueing?
Mancheski’s fourth-graders are gluing their portraits to construction paper and hanging them on the wall. You will never succeed in carpentry if you are not properly gluing your scarf joints.
Thankfully though, there are plenty of solutions, too. If you find yourself facing an adhesive dilemma, or simply want to find out if there’s a better, more cost-effective adhesive available for your packaging needs, Glue Machinery’s Glue Diligence program can help.
Also, if you use the wrong glue pattern you could be wasting money creating less-than-ideal package bonds. To determine your ideal glue pattern, figure out what you want your end user to experience.
How can you tell if joint failure is a result of glue?
A simple test to determine if joint failure is a result of glue failure or wood failure, is to assemble a few joints then whack the assembly with a hammer. Something has to give. Just hope it’s the wood – because that means the glue is stronger than the wood.
Why does hide glue have to be in liquid form?
If you added urea (a high nitrogen compound used primarily in fertilizer today) to animal protein glues (of which hot hide glue is but one), you could lengthen the gel time of the hide glue, or keep the glue in a liquid state much longer, thus allowing more intricate work to be completed before the glue set.
