On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:09:32 -0700, s wrote:

I just spent 10 minutes for the umpteenth time getting the dried glue
out of the slightly-too-clever-for-it's-own-good cap of a bottle of
titebond 2. it's pretty good when new, but after a few refills and
cleanings it gets pretty mangled. the more mangled it gets the quicker
it gets gunked up.

yeah, I know, go buy another bottle of glue. I don't wanna. thing is,
it's not all that great for a glue bottle. it's OK in use and it's
nice that the lid doesn't get lost, but the service life is too short.
it's _always_ the cap that fails in my shop.

thinking about the resturant ketchup squeeze bottles. seems like the
same kind of plastic, but built a little stouter and with a simpler
spout. pretty cheap, too- half a buck or so from the resturant supply.
anybody using these? something else? got a favorite?

Elmer's Carpenter's Wood Glue. The spout is absolutely clog proof and I
switched to it after going through the same spout-unclogging nonsense that
you've described. The glue itself is identical to Titebond as far as I've been
able to tell, though if you're really stuck on Titebond you can just refill the
Elmer's bottle with it.
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