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Gerald Miller wrote: I use regular carpenter's glue. If you don't use too much glue, it will be partially absorbed by the shingles and will dry quite quickly. I use "hot melt glue" only for carton sealing as it is useless in woodworking (unless, of course, you are thinking of the old fashioned hide glue). One of our builders decided hot glue was wonderful for railings etc. and after repairing the third house, I told him that should he persist in this, he would never get another building assignment from our store. By the time the pieces are assembled, the exposed glue surface has cooled very slightly and the bond strength is destroyed. Gerry :-)} London, Canada Regular carpenters glue really slowed me down. Same thing for any kind of tacky craft-type glue. It was too easy to knock adjacent shingles loose. With the hot glue gun, I used two hands. Gun in one, shingle in the other. The glue doesn't have a chance to cool off. |
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I use wood glue to attach the shingles and run a strip of masking tape
lightly across the op edge. By the time one row of shingles is laid around the roof I can peel back some of the initial masking tape and start the next row. I can get about three or four rows before my back gives out and I have to go do something seated, and by then the glue has dried enough to go again. HTH |
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 02:27:15 GMT, "Carol"
wrote: Doesn't the wood glue dry too slowly? I would think that if the glue isn't dry it would be a problem to do a second row until the first row is totally dry and wood glue takes hours to dry. I use a line of glue about half the size of a standard pencil lead and, as I mentioned, absorbtion plays a part at this volume. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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