[CAUT] gorilla glue

[Jeannie Grassi]

Hi Everyone.  

I echo Richard's warnings.  It is next to impossible to get off your skin
until you grow it off.

 

A rather stressful experience happened to me once when I got this stuff on
my hands and thought I'd just wipe it off with a rag.  Well, it just smeared
it around so that both hands then had a nice layer all over.  It hardens and
picks up all the dirt and only goes away with abrasive rubbing or the
growing of new skin.  The stress came about because I was performing in a
play in the evenings during this time period and I needed to gesture with my
hands.  The theatre was an intimate one and I got up very close to audience
seats in the front rows.  As I went through my role for a few evenings, I
had to be careful not to show the palms of my hands.  I could only imagine
what they would have thought if they'd seen them!  I haven't used this glue
since.

jeannie

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Murphy
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:40 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] gorilla glue

 

HI Don,
    Be careful not to get any on your skin because it will stain your
fingers brown and it doesn't wash off, you have to wait until your fingers
grow new skin (about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks).  You put the glue on one surface and
wet the other with water, then fit the parts together and clamp them
strongly because the glue foams up and will push the two pieces apart.  You
will have to clean up the foam from the outside afterwards.  Definitely not
the glue to use on parts that need replacing.
Richard


On 11/9/06 10:31 AM, "Wigent, Donald E" <WIGENTD at ecu.edu> wrote:

Say gang: tell me about this glue, Can I handle it or is it like CA and
would it be good for cracked bridges. What is it good for? Maybe broken
leggs or ripped out lid hinges? 
Don Wigent
E C U
 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org]
<mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org%5d>  On Behalf Of Jim Busby
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:31 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] gorilla glue

Thanks Dale. Of course, I was hoping you'd have some magic solvent or voodoo
for me. What an awful glue.
 
Jim Busby BYU
 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org]
<mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org%5d>  On Behalf Of Ward & Probst, Inc
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:15 AM
To: 'College and University Technicians'
Subject: Re: [CAUT] gorilla glue


Jim,



I think you'll have to cut the hammers off to save the shanks. I'd use a
band saw to remove as much as possible. then whittle off the rest. I am
pretty sure that poly glue is not susceptible to solvents after it sets. All
that said, you'd have enough time in the job to have to weigh it against the
cost of new parts, particularly if the original parts need repining, etc.
I'd guess it'd would take two to three hours to clean up the old shanks.
Unless they are unusual or costly shanks, that would be at least half the
way to new parts.



Good luck,

Dale

Dale E. Probst, RPT

Ward & Probst, Inc.

Wichita Falls, TX 

mailto:dale at wardprobst.com

www.wardprobst.com  <http://www.wardprobst.com/>
<http://www.wardprobst.com/> 
 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org]
<mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org%5d>  On Behalf Of Jim Busby
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:36 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] gorilla glue
List,
 
All the talk of glue brings me to this problem/question. Someone used
gorilla glue to hang some hammers that I want to remove and I can't find
ANYTHING that will work. I know I could simply buy new shanks and flanges,
but does anyone know of anything that's works on this stuff??
 
Thanks.
 
Jim Busby BYU

 

 

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