Re: Hot melt glue

The best use I have found for cheap hot melt glue is to hold parts temporarily in place while marking them to length or while drilling screw holes for permanent attachment. recently, I used cheap hot melt (craft grade 3/8" clear sticks ) to hold the slats for seats in a dinghy I am building in place while drilling the screws and installing the braces that hold the seats together. When done, it popped off easily and the glue peeled off with little effort. The seats are perfect with little effort.
Mike

Hey, folks. Thanks for your replies on this.

I wonder if the impression was given I wanted to glue something up permanently this way. Not so. Am working up a little project to finish bright, more a 2 foot boat than the 10 foot ones I'm used to doing, and have been considering ways to avoid blemishes, pencil marks preserved under epoxy, too many dings or holes etc.

It was interesting to google this up a little, Like anything ya buy these days, there are many details and options to consider. The prominent hot melt glues are polyurethanes. There is a variety of formulations for different materials. They're said to clean up best with isopropyl alcohol or acetone. LocTite has a version claimed to be just right for wood, having lots of tooth into the grain, but I wonder if that makes it harder to clean off.

The downside seems to be expense. It is easy to spend $150 for a gun and shots of glue are often $13.50, though a dedicated bargain hunter could probably do better than that.

Why not wire, indeed? Or just duct tape.
Mark

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----- Original Message -----
From:jdmeddock
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Sent:Monday, March 04, 2013 2:52 PM
Subject:[bolger] Re: Hot melt glue

> Why not use tie wraps?

I tried that once.
It just made a big mess out of my glue gun!
MAybe I need low melt tie wraps?

Justin

> Why not use tie wraps?

I tried that once.
It just made a big mess out of my glue gun!
MAybe I need low melt tie wraps?

Justin

Harold Payson used hot melt glue in boats with easy bends.

--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, Mark Albanese <marka97203@...> wrote:
>
> Anyone here like using hot melt glue to hold a small s&g boat
> assembly together? Is it (really) strong enough too hold curved
> plywood in shape while flipping or moving around? Does it clean up
> easily?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

Mark,

My main marine use for hot melt glue is to glue the tops on empty gallon milk jugs to provide extra flotation for Micro. That is the lightest floatation I can come up with. I wouldn’t count on it for hull assembly.

MylesJ

Why not use tie wraps?

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Mark Albanese<marka97203@...>wrote:
Anyone here like using hot melt glue to hold a small s&g boat
assembly together? Is it (really) strong enough too hold curved
plywood in shape while flipping or moving around? Does it clean up
easily?

Thanks,
Mark

Not I. It might hold things together for filleting and taping but is it compatible with the other glue you’re going to use? It would occupy spaces I want filled with the real thing, and I would worry that it would contaminate and compromise epoxy bonds. And in what way would it be better than wire or screws, or any easier to apply?

I had a famous guitar-maker take my class at WoodenBoat School, and he brought an array of super-glues which he recommended for all sorts of quick jobs. These glues would hold surprisingly well but prevent getting epoxy where you want it, i.e. in complete coverage of surfaces to be joined.

From:bolger@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bolger@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf OfMark Albanese
Sent:Sunday, March 03, 2013 3:03 PM
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Subject:[bolger] Hot melt glue

Anyone here like using hot melt glue to hold a small s&g boat
assembly together? Is it (really) strong enough too hold curved
plywood in shape while flipping or moving around? Does it clean up
easily?

Thanks,
Mark

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