Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: skipskip on February 13, 2014, 03:10:58 PM
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I have several wooden Mossberg set boxes that need repair.
What kind or brand of glue should I use?
I'd like it not to show very much.
Skip
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Glue is the least of your problems Skip.
Cleaning the old wood so the glue has a chance, is your main job here.
So scrub the crap out of the joint area with acetone until its clean clean clean. I use paper towels and just keep wetting and scrubbing until finally the towel comes up totally clean.
Obviously, corners and sections of the towel to start, unless you have money to burn.
When its clean enough any polyvinyl glue will do. Elmers Titebond etc.
I would not use original Gorilla foam glue for this, its way too messy.
With poly, you glue and clamp, and then in a few minutes take a damp sponge and clean all the extra glue off before it dries.
yours Scott
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As Scott said, you gotta clean it. If not clean you will just be glueing dirt to dirt.
Once its cleaned good I would use a two part epoxy. I often use Loctite two part epoxy for various things. I put the link below.
http://www.menards.com/main/home-decor/crafts/glue/epoxy/loctite-epoxy-quick-set-epoxy-syringe-5-min/p-1860331-c-7171.htm
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I like Titebond myself.
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When I glue something with Titebond, Elmer's, etc. I like to wait until the excess glue sets up a little (to a soft rubbery consistency) before scraping it off gently, especially if it's raw wood that I may want to stain.
If you wipe the excess off immediately some of the glue gets into the wood grain no matter how hard you try to get it all off, and it could affect how the stain gets absorbed in the joint area.
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I like Gorilla wood glue (not the original Gorilla foamy stuff).
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I've been using Murphy's oil soap to clean old oily wood boxes, dirty / moldy wood items. Seems to work well! We had bought old walnut cupboard out of a basement, moldy and coal oil soaked. We tried a bunch of different cleaners nothing seem to work. So by dumb luck at an auction the wife got a pile of stuff in there was a bottle of Murphy's. Gave it a try and it worked so well. Used up a bunch of old rags cause that cupboard was black! So we bought a gallon dilute it to spray it and have two spray bottles one for her and one for me and my old radios and stuff. Working on the 3rd gallon jug now over the last 10-15 years.
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I do not like to overclean my tools, so I have been using Murphy's Oil Soap for years. Also, I do not have a bunch of nasty solvent laden rags to deal with afterwards.
I mix some in hot water, wash the wooden parts of the tools with it and a rag, then wipe dry immediately with another rag, and then let sit in the sun for a few minutes. It will really dry your skin out, so I use vinyl gloves when I do it. After the tool is dry, I follow up with tung oil.
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The glue originally on things of this age was hide glue. Still available from TiteBond, still works very well. On old stuff, that's what I use.