justin_o_guy2
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Your gizmo is right clever, solid answer, if I get able to build a bike, I might build something like that. Watching a YouTube some months ago I saw a guy who did woodwork all the time and he had been totally sold on TiteBond. It's pretty easy to believe that if a company creates a product and they have The Original TiteBond II TiteBond III thinking TiteBond III must surely be the best option. According to that guy, it's a NotSoFast moment.
Something to be aware of
Utter failure of Titebond III davidmeiland | Posted in General Discussion on January 16, 2006 02:30am I glued up 13 deck post wraps out of 1x clear Western red cedar. 2 pcs 3/4 x 3-9/16 x 36, 2 pieces 3/4 x 5-1/16 x 36, glued up into square ‘tubes’ that slide down around 4×4 posts. Four biscuits per glueline. All the cedar came to me KD and has been stored dry in the barn for 6 months. It measured an average of about 14% MC right before glue-up, which was done indoors in heated space. The materials all stayed indoors overnight before and after being glued up. The glue was bought brand new at my lumber yard the day before the job.
As far as the workmanship goes, I’ve done hundreds and hundreds of glue-ups in my life, everything from a chess board I made in junior high woodshop to large and complex cabinets that took three guys to get together. All of the joints in this case were clean, correctly clamped, the right amount of glue and the right amount of squeeze-out. Everything looked perfect when I sanded it out.
After just a few days outdoors some of the joints are completely open, and others are on their way. About half still seem perfectly tight. I’m part way thru fabricating and installing the rail sections between the posts. I’m obviously going to have to take the whole thing back apart, salvage what lumber I can, buy a fair amount of new stuff, and start over. Gorilla Glue this time
There’s nothing on the Titebond web site about not using this glue with cedar. Perhaps I got a bad batch or maybe it was frozen on the way to the lumberyard.
Hope that helps someone avoid a
WTF Is THIS? Moment
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