Titebond Cold Press?

[woodbloke]

I've just seen this stuff in the Ax catalogue. As all my glue went 'off' :roll: in the recent coldish spell, I'm in dire need of a swift order to Axminster for a re-supply. As I'll be doing some more veneering this year, I wondered if anyone's tried this stuff...still going to keep the TBIII for general bench work though.
Edit - just noticed that it's interior use only, so not waterproof, which makes cleaning up difficult as I soak the veneer tape for easy removal - Rob

 

[Shane]

I would have thought you'd be ok soaking the veneer tape with that glue as it's a pva, I think you would only have trouble with extended exterior use

 

[JonnyD]

I was interested so i took a look at the pdf on the titebond site it says its not to be used for other assembly work other than veneering. It looks like its waterbased contact adhesive so a replacement for solvent based adhesives. Ive tried a waterbased contact adhesive in the past and wasnt impressed at all although it wasnt the titebond one.

I would stick to either Titebond or D3 PVA or UF resin seeing as you have a vacuum bag.

cheers

Jon

 

[woodbloke]

I would stick to either Titebond or D3 PVA or UF resin seeing as you have a vacuum bag.

cheers

Jon

...which is what I'm doing Jon. I've ordered a coupla middle size bottles of TBIII which ought to keep me going for a little while, after which I'll get hold of another gallon of the stuff and decant into the smaller ones as and when needed. I reckon TBIII or II has to be the 'default' PVA glue these days...difficult to fault apart from the short open time in warmer weather, but that's a problem with all PVA adhesives - Rob

 

[OPJ]

I bought some of this from Rutlands last year (purely out of curiosity) and have used it a couple of times to do some laminating. It just seems like the rest of their glues, to me! :roll: :duno: It worked alright but, I don't see how it's any different to their 'Extend' adhesive, really - similar open time but the Cold Press adhesive is darker... Also, I think that Extend is water or weather proof.

 

[Mooeee]

Rob

I have used the Titebond Cold press glue and found it worked really well, I can't see why you are worried that it is not water proof (Interior use only) just because you soak the tape to remove it What sort of thing do you veneer that you would want a water proof glue for :?: Am I missing the point or is there not a layer of veneer between the tape and the glue and that not being water proof will not affect it just by taking the tape off.

You don't need to put to much water on the tape to remove it anyway. The glue is dark so that if it comes through splits, cracks or pin holes in the veneer it will not show as much when it's dry.

 

[woodbloke]

Rob

I have used the Titebond Cold press glue and found it worked really well, I can't see why you are worried that it is not water proof (Interior use only) just because you soak the tape to remove it What sort of thing do you veneer that you would want a water proof glue for :?: Am I missing the point or is there not a layer of veneer between the tape and the glue and that not being water proof will not affect it just by taking the tape off.

You don't need to put to much water on the tape to remove it anyway. The glue is dark so that if it comes through splits, cracks or pin holes in the veneer it will not show as much when it's dry.

I generally soak the tape with a green pan scourer and then use a card scraper to remove the stuff. As commercial veneer is only .6mm thick, water will go straight through it and de-laminate the veneer from the substrate if the glue used isn't waterproof. In a commercial 'shop this isn't usually a problem as panels are shoved through a speed sander which not only removes the tape but sands the veneer at the same time - Rob