<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)"> <title>Re: [CAUT] gorilla glue</title> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> 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   <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@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 </div>   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@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   <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [<a href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org%5d">mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]</a> 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   <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [<a href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org%5d">mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]</a> 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 <a href="mailto:dale@wardprobst.com">mailto:dale@wardprobst.com</a> www.wardprobst.com <a href="http://www.wardprobst.com/"><http://www.wardprobst.com/></a>   <blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [<a href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org%5d">mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]</a> 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 </blockquote>     </div> </body> </html>