hot glue gun

[jim1950]

I'm going to have ago with glue chucks for turning some platers, can I have recommendations for hot glue guns please, all I've been told so far it a higher wattage to get the glue very hot is best.
Ones I've seen go from a few pounds to hundreds help please.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Have a look at Glue Guns Direct | Supplying Manufacturing, Industry & Trade Since 1979
The sticks are 12mm which gives a bit better throughput. I got one of these - TEC 305 12mm Craft Glue Gun | Glue Guns Direct - Glue Guns & Glue Sticks UK and Tecbond OEM B01-12-300 | Glue Guns Direct - Glue Guns & Glue Sticks UK
which will probably last me a lifetime.

It's worth a look through the site for the info. on the different adhesives.

 

[flh801978]

I tried one of these at a company i go to... TEC 810 15mm Industrial Glue Gun | Glue Guns Direct - Glue Guns & Glue Sticks UK
And immediately bought one it warms up quick and can put out a lot of glue quickly.
The price stings but its a great gun

 

[Ozi]

Used one of these at work, very robust did a good job.

 

[Ozi]

If covering a large area with glue and if the item you are attaching is a bit of a heat sink, try what we did and warm things up with a hot air gun first. We were sticking 3mm steel plate to car roof linings and in the winter the plate drew the heat out of the glue very quickly

 

[Cabinetman]

Great things, but don’t be tempted to wipe away any excess glue with your finger – sticks like…………

 

[Cabinetman]

If covering a large area with glue and if the item you are attaching is a bit of a heat sink, try what we did and warm things up with a hot air gun first. We were sticking 3mm steel plate to car roof linings and in the winter the plate drew the heat out of the glue very quickly

Love to know why you were doing that,

 

[Ozi]

They are a head impact countermeasure for the federal market. When a head hits them it has to accelerate the mass which slowes down the head and reduces injury when the head contacts solid parts of the car body, if you just have the headlining it adsorbs very little energy before the full impact. FMVSS201U is the standard, bit of legislation left over from when most American states didn't require seat belts. Possibly the daftest tests I have ever run. Uses the rearmost point of the rubber seal securing the windscreen as a datum - I kid you not.

 

[Cabinetman]

Well I suppose I did ask! Thanks, I think. It’s amazing what you come across on here.

 

[pgrbff]

Stickfast make a range of professional glue guns. I managed to buy one cheap on ebay. They are very good.

 

[Ozi]

Great things, but don’t be tempted to wipe away any excess glue with your finger – sticks like…………

And if you do don't suck your finger!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Just a thought - when you stick your blank put the hot melt around the circumference so you can heat it or chisel it off, or if you feel you need to get the glue under it get something to space the blank off the substrate so you can get a hot filling knife between them. I ruined a nice blank trying to part it from the waste wood because I couldn't get between them. IPA softens the stuff, as well.

 

[kinverkid]

And if you do don't suck your finger!

Been there. Then try to explain to the missus how you burned your tongue with hot melt glue.

 

[Ozi]

Just a thought - when you stick your blank put the hot melt around the circumference so you can heat it or chisel it off, or if you feel you need to get the glue under it get something to space the blank off the substrate so you can get a hot filling knife between them. I ruined a nice blank trying to part it from the waste wood because I couldn't get between them. IPA softens the stuff, as well.

I'd been visiting this site for a while before I found out IPA was not Indian Pail Ale

 

[jim1950]

Have a look at Glue Guns Direct | Supplying Manufacturing, Industry & Trade Since 1979
The sticks are 12mm which gives a bit better throughput. I got one of these - TEC 305 12mm Craft Glue Gun | Glue Guns Direct - Glue Guns & Glue Sticks UK and Tecbond OEM B01-12-300 | Glue Guns Direct - Glue Guns & Glue Sticks UK
which will probably last me a lifetime.

It's worth a look through the site for the info. on the different adhesives.

Thanks Phil

 

[jim1950]

Thanks for your input guys

 

[donwatson]

I have used a hot glue gun to attach wood to a wooden faceplate. Just running glue around the outside diameter was enough to allow he turning of a foot to hold in the machine chuck. It was just a matter of sticking the piece in the microwave on full power for 30 seconds or so and the two pieces came apart quite easily with a bit of chisel/screwdriver to ease them apart.
Don W

 

[Cooper]

I'd been visiting this site for a while before I found out IPA was not Indian Pail Ale

Well, what is it then for the ignorant? I was just going to ask.

 

[Ozi]

Well, what is it then for the ignorant? I was just going to ask.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

https://hexchemonline.co.uk/products/ipa?variant=52047399430
very useful stuff.