Does anyone have experience with Lee Valley’s Chair Doctor Glue$ Does this stuff really work or is it a gimick? I would appreciate any comments about long term effectiveness, failures, etc.
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dsantos
I have used some and it seems to hold OK, if the joint isn't too loose to begin with. However, I had a heck of a time getting the needle-like cap to work right, and ended up pouring it into a syringe to use. I will go back to epoxy next time.
Used it on a 50 year old pine table and set of colonial chairs - if this stuff isn't the best thing around, it is certainly close.
It is liquid-y, and runs quite a bit, but if you get it into the joints, it will swell the wood to the point where you would swear it was freshly assembled...
That table was falling apart (tenons coming out of mortises) and the chairs were the same way. the needles were flexible enough that I could get them into the smallest joints (where they were loose, but could not be disassembled).
Today those tables and chairs are like new (except for the finish :) - my dad (who built them 50 years ago) couldn't believe that I hadn't disassembled any of them...
d-
used it on my mother in laws chairs. very picky person. That was 3 years ago and still holding,dispite old wigglie bottoms best shot at proveing me wrong again.
Tom B
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