On Feb 5, 5:15*pm, Tanus wrote:
wrote:
My gara... shop is unheated, except for the heat that bleeds from the
house, and wintertime woodworking in Seattle, although not quite as
rugged as in the Northeast, can be a bit chilly. *Nonetheless, I have
glued up projects in temperatures colder than the minimum stated on
Titebond I many times, and have never had a glueline fail. *I have
seen the chalking you would expect from glue that's too cold, but only
on the squeezeout.

However, this year I decided to try Titebond III, in part because it
has a lower working temperature than Titebond I. *To my surprise, I
had a couple of joints fail, even though I was gluing at around the
minimum working temperature, 45 deg. F. *Has anyone else experienced
this, or did I mess up some other factor, like starving the joint, or
maybe not having the surfaces in tight-enough contact?

I live in one of the coldest climates of anyone in the Wreck. I also
have a shop that is mostly unheated, except for the time that I'm in it.
I keep my Titebond in a cabinet that is kept warm all the time to avoid
the -30° days. I've thrown out Titebond that has frozen and then been
thawed.

Having said that, I've also had some pretty serious glue failures in the
past, attributed to the cold. Not only just the temperature of the day,
but of the glue and of the surfaces I'm trying to glue.

I've learned that lesson. If I need to glue something up, the glue, and
the surfaces must have been in 60° for more than a couple of hours. If
that's not possible, I bring everything (including the clanky clamps
that my wife hates) inside and let them acclimatize. That's normally
overnight.

Since I've taken that attitude, the only glue failures I've had are from
badly mated surfaces.

Tanus

You could always ship your glue jobs to me here in Canada's Banana
Belt. G