"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Leon" wrote in message

I think glue starvation is confused with a situation where glue was not
applied correctly to begin with, for example running a thin bead of glue
down the edge of a board and not spreading it out to cover the whole
surface. If you simply let the mating board squeeze the glue out to
where ever it will go there are going to be some parts to that union that
will not get any glue on it at all. That is glue starvation.

There is also the idiot factor. Just a few weeks ago a door at work
needed repair as it was splitting in a few spots at the hinges. The
cracks ran from the near the hinge to the door edge on both top an bottom.
Heavy 40" door.

I decided that it should be fixed by applying epoxy and clamping
everything in place. One of the supervisors said he'd do it. I showed
him where to clamp and gave him the package of two part epoxy. He read the
instructions. Genius that he is, instead of mixing the two parts together,
he figured he'd coat one side with part A, the other with part B and clamp
them. That would be sufficient to mix them.

He re-did the job the next day.

Side note: the person that broke the door was suspended for three days.

Sounds like some of the fence building companies in the Houston area. They
dig the hole, pour the dry RediMix into the hole around the post and let
nature do the rest. They believe that the moisture in the ground will cure
the concrete. It is common to pour dry mix in the hole and add water, that
works quite well especially in our clay soil. I replaced a fence 2 years
ago and literally pulled the old posts out of the ground by hand. The
concrete was cured on the top inch or so but it appeard to be fresh out of
the bag below that level.