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   bobhallsr | Jun 21, 2002 07:40am | #1

   There are so many different kinds of hot melt glues that a tutorial that covered your question is probably beyond the scope if this board. Let's back up here and you tell us why you want to know, or what experience you have had with hot melt glue guns, or what piqued your curiosity, and that should give us a starting point. Otherwise we might get stuck on a topic like hot melt water activated adhesives for envelope flaps.

   You chose a real good topic though.

   BJ

   Gardening, cooking and woodworking in Southern Maryland
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   badoyn | Jun 21, 2002 05:00pm | #2

   Actually, my initial interest in hot glues is not woodworking based. I play hockey and I have replaceable blades that use a kind of hot melt glue to hold it in the shaft and it releases when it's heated when the blade breaks. Well, I broke the shaft of the stick and wanted to reuse the blade, but I realized it didn't have enough glue on it, so I want to get some to add to the blade. At $21 a pop for blades you can see why I want to reuse it.

   It then got me thinking about the woodworking uses of hot melt glue. Is it more a temporary use thing?

   Thanks,

   Michael

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   bobhallsr | Jun 22, 2002 06:53am | #3

   One of the major suppliers of every kind of imaginable adhesive has been Franklin. I've been out of the loop for 10 or more years and adhesives were fast changing then. I'll do search to see what I can find. You might go online to the stick manufacturer and see if they will supply you with a bit of the suitable glue. There are high strength hot melts to go in glue guns but they don't seem to be on the retail shelves.

   Hot melts can be good tempo adhesives but almost every industrial glue application now has a hot melt version. One industrial advantage of hot melt is that its open time is so brief. Squirt it on hot and it is cooled by the substrait. No clamping required.Gardening, cooking and woodworking in Southern Maryland