Gorilla Glue

[dmccarty]

I have only used Gorilla Glue a couple of times. And it has worked. Won't buy it again since it goes bad so fast. The chair legs I fixed with the glue have held up very well. I certainly did not wet or cleanup the joint before I squirted in the glue.

But it worked anyway.

Seems like I did clamp the pieces.

Later,
Dan

 

[jeffinsgf]

Urethane glues (all of them, not just GG) have some unique properties that make them very advantageous for certain applications, but they're not a great choice for general indoor woodworking projects. They're particularly well suited to working with slightly green wood. I built some garden boxes from cedar that I milled from some storm damaged trees. The joinery has held up extremely well and the slabs were glued up while the stock was still very wet.

They're also pretty forgiving on sloppy joinery. The expansion of the glue will fill some pretty significant voids. That said, they're not epoxy. You can't use urethane to stick two pieces together if they don't already fit fairly well. The flip side of that is that epoxy has to have some room to work, or it will fail. If the joint is too tight, epoxy doesn't bond worth a darn.

Like others, I have given up on buying pints. I buy the smallest bottle I can find right before I start a project, and have started throwing whatever is left in the trash. I don't want a false sense of security that I have something sitting there to use when we all know it will be hard as a rock when you need it.

 

[Ken_CT]

Gorilla Glue works well for certain things, and I found if you wet the wood first the bond is good. My two complaints about the product are as everyone has already stated, it has a short shelf life and I only buy the small container, and second, it stains your fingers brown and is very hard to get the stain off. I wear the HF blue gloves when using it now.

 

[Travelover]

Gorilla glue cures by absorbing moisture out of the air. I keep my glue bottle inside a tightly sealed Tupperware type of container which is also filled with loose silica gel pellets. These are the little packets that come packed with new moisture sensitive merchandise and say "Do not eat" on the outside.

5 Gram Packets

Once a month or so, I bake the silica gel at 250 degrees for long enough to thoroughly dry it out and it is good to go for another month or so.

 

[RobJ]

On what I've used GG on it was worked well. I do only buy the small bottles. There is also a white out now.

Super Glue or CA (Cyanoacrylate Glue) has come a long way to. Slow set times and a spray on accelarator as mentioned.

For wood I just use tight bond.

 

[Ken_CT]

A trick I've learned to make Gorilla Glue not harden in the bottle is to squeeze all the air out off the bottle before capping it.

 

[Skyco]

I've had pretty good results with many Gorilla Glue uses. Loctite had a similar product out called Sumo Glue. Haven't seen it lately. I had a bottle of it and they recommended squeezing the air out, problem was the cap didn't seal well enough and it refilled in a few minutes. I called their 800 line and complained and they sent me a new bottle with a different design cap

 

[Scooby074]

For those with mig welders, a little tip i use to preserve anything Urethane (hardners, glues, paints etc) is to fill the airspace above the product with gas from the welder's nozzel then cap the product. the dry argon/ co2 keeps the moisture away. Just watch where your ground is realitive to the can

 

[czechsonofagun]

Urethane glues (all of them, not just GG) have some unique properties that make them very advantageous for certain applications, but they're not a great choice for general indoor woodworking projects. They're particularly well suited to working with slightly green wood. I built some garden boxes from cedar that I milled from some storm damaged trees. The joinery has held up extremely well and the slabs were glued up while the stock was still very wet.

That's very interesting, thank you Jeff.