•I, too, am a great advocate of Gorilla Glue and I agree with Eric Shoemaker in all regards. I can make two small additional suggestions. Since it will harden in the bottle once opened, squeeze the bottle before replacing the cap to exhaust as much air as possible. This will lengthen the shelf life ...

•Gorilla Glue now has its much cheaper generic equivalent at Lowe's hardware store. I have not tried it. One caution with this type of glue is that it tends to clog up the spout and requires driving a needle down it to clear it. So buy the smallest bottle you thing you would use. A 1" tubing connect...

•Hello, Gorilla glue is actually not new, just the marketing of it is new. Dow Chemical Co. made an expanding urethane adhesive for years and discontinued it, probably for good reasons. It was difficult to work with and you could never use more than a small portion of the tube before it hardened. Th...

•I had the pleasure of assisting on the installation of all the process equipment at Henkel Adhesives in Elgin, Illinois, in the early 1990's when they started the production of self-curing, self-foaming, urethane adhesive (Gorilla Glue). At that time the largest user was the manufactured home and t...

•No one has addressed the real problem with "Gorilla Glue". Sign makers use expanded [urethane] foam blanks because it is dimensionally stable. The foam does not shrink or expand with temperature or humidity changes. Wood does! Therefore many people have complained that the joints telegraph or even ...

•Hi All, Craig Brougher has written an article titled "Using Gorilla Glue" that you might find eye-opening. In the article he explains some of the properties of the glue and why it should not be used for various kinds of repairs where the transmission of sound is involved. The article is at http://w...

•Dear Group, A warm thanks to all who posted their thoughts and comments concerning the use of "Gorilla Glue." Also, thanks to my friends that forwarded Craig Brougher's page and thoughts about this product from his site. I hope to remain the "purist" that I endeavor to be in using the materials clo...

•I have some minor repairs to make on my Chickering square grand that was totally restored back in 1988. Some of the veneer is separating. I think I can handle it myself but don't know what type of glue to use. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Tom Lathom Jacksonville, Florida

•Let us all understand that _hot hide glue_ is a super product in the repair and restoration of the player piano. I admit that I do not usually work on anything but coin-operated player pianos. I would and do so deplore redoing the work that some well informed person has previously done with other m...

•Hi All, They say that "Experience is the Master", and while I've had lots of experiences that taught me a lesson, I had another unpleasant experience this morning that taught me another lesson. Also, there's a faint possibility that the lesson ties in with another current thread. So, I'll throw it ...

•MMD readers will be relieved and delighted to learn that sealed, uncured RTV silicone adhesives have shelf lives of several years, especially if kept cold. Even once their package seals are broken, they will remain usable for many months if all air is expelled and they are hermetically resealed. Un...

•The RTV adhesive that Paddy Handscombe writes about is from the UK, it seems. I wonder what the equivalent is here in North America. It is not the PVC-e white water thinnable glue that Player Piano Co. and Schaff Piano sells, I am guessing. The claim was made that the pneumatics hold tight but can ...

•A surprising number of subscribers have asked about the brand and type of RTV silicone I use, and other questions on its application. Dow Corning USA were -- unsurprisingly, as silica glass makers -- the originators of RTV silicones and for 40+ years had a virtual monopoly. They offer a huge variet...

•Hide glue is a wonderful glue. A question a week or so ago went unanswered and I think I may be of some help. I use hide glue for everything. It is probably because I am used to using it and second that the other glues seem to just go bad on my shelf from lack of use. When using hide glue on pneuma...

•In the model airplane hobby I am told that Superglue is used to glue the wooden parts together. It seems that after some time the glue breaks down and no longer holds. Does anyone else have an opinion about this subject? Don Teach [ Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate :- [ [ "Cyanoacryl...

•Recently, I received a list of adhesives available from one of my suppliers. That list also explained what each adhesive was good for. While reading the list, I noticed "fish glue", used for organ bellows. So, I went to MMD Archives and read everything once written about it. I also noticed that "hi...

•Howard Jensen wrote in 080202 MMDigest: > I also noticed that "hide glue" was available in liquid form. So ... > Can I finally get rid of this glue pot, and just use these two glues? Hello Howard. I'd suggest that you keep the glue pot. It's good for many things, as are both the fish glue and the l...

•Howard Jensen asked about fish glue vs. the hot glue pot. We releathered 38 ranks of Wurlitzer here a few years ago. About half was done using hot glue. When we ran out of hot glue, Bob Arndt suggested using fish glue instead, and to encourage me to try it he sent along a small bottle. I liked it b...

•Howard Jensen asks if he can toss out his hot hide glue pot now that he has discovered liquid hide glue and fish glue. I find fish glue very useful for gluing leather to wood. I use it to glue leather coverings to organ pipe stoppers. It's pretty sticky and it dries very fast. Likewise, liquid hide...

•When I started rebuilding player actions, in 1957, I used Rogers' Liquid Fish Glue as recommended at the time by Tuners' Supply Company of Somerville (Boston 45), Massachusetts, for use with their pneumatic cloths. It was easy to use, but because of the slow drying time I devised a method of applyi...