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Glue? Glue Sticks?
Ok, this will be a weird queston but I need to know.
How is glue made? How are glue sticks made? I need to know for a class I am in. I tried web sites but can't get any were. Please help. |
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Renee99 wrote:
Ok, this will be a weird queston but I need to know. How is glue made? How are glue sticks made? I need to know for a class I am in. I tried web sites but can't get any were. Please help. Have you tried an encyclopedia? If not the good, old-fashioned paper sort, then one of the on-line ones such as http://en.wikipedia.org Hint: Searching for "adhesive" will get you more information that searching for "glue." Additional information about a large variety of adhesives can be found he http://www.thistothat.com/ (a very nifty resource, by the way, when you don't know what kind of adhesive to use for a particular project or material). -- Pat Kight |
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Glue sticks aren't glues in the truest sense of the word, they're a
class of materials called "hot melt adhesives" by the people wo make them. This is more than you want to know but hot melts are complicated materials, so here goes: Hot melt adhesives are really plastics. Most hot melts are polyolefins. Polyolefins are a family of plastics which are made by using stringing together olecules of proplyene and ethylene into long chains, or polymers. Proplyene and ethylene are both gasses, so the process requires high temperature and pressure. Some of the most familiar polyolefins are polyethylene (milk jugs, plastic sheeting, etc.), polypropylene (liquid detergent jugs, other containers),etc. There are many other types of polyolefins, including glue sticks. Glue sticks are made by heating the polyolefin untill it melts, and then forcing it through a chilled tube to form sticks. The sticks are then cut to length and packaged for sale. If you want to know more, you can go to www.Google.com or Yahoo.com and type in "hot melt glue", including the quotation marks. Don't try to search under "adhesives", that category covers too many types of products - you'll get about 100,000 links. Pat Kight wrote: Renee99 wrote: Ok, this will be a weird queston but I need to know. How is glue made? How are glue sticks made? I need to know for a class I am in. I tried web sites but can't get any were. Please help. Have you tried an encyclopedia? If not the good, old-fashioned paper sort, then one of the on-line ones such as http://en.wikipedia.org Hint: Searching for "adhesive" will get you more information that searching for "glue." Additional information about a large variety of adhesives can be found he http://www.thistothat.com/ (a very nifty resource, by the way, when you don't know what kind of adhesive to use for a particular project or material). -- Pat Kight |
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Good answer Barry!
We use totally different types of glue sticks for different purposes. Some are nothing like what is commonly used or for hobby use. One of the glue sticks my uncle uses requires very high heat to melt and high pressure equipment to eject the semi-solid liquid. It will 'after-cured' withstand over 3,000 degrees farenheit for extended periods of time without failing. Provided of course it is used and placed correctly. Hobby type glue sticks 'melt' at very low temperatures, often between 210 and 350 degrees. Try using that to hold a smelting pot together, hi hi.... TTUL Gary |
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