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pintihar
 
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The bottle of yellow glue I have states that it will not work in
temperatures below 55 degrees. (Titebond II)

I just completed a project ( poplar storage chest ). I noticed that
after letting the glue set for several hours, that the temperature in
my shop is low: 50 degrees.
I have moved the project indoors. Any comments or advice on the status
of the glue job?

Also, I use gorilla glue from time to time depending on the
requirements. I love the stuff, and would welcome comments on the
pros/cons of this versus standard yellow ww glue.

Thanks,
Phil



Thanks for the comments and suggestions.
Here are some results from my testing: I glued two sets of joints from
some scrap and let one set cure in the house at 68 degrees and the
other in the shop at 49 degrees. I let both cure for 24+ hours and in
the most _scientific_ method I could think of I broke the joints. It
seemed to me that I needed similarly forceful leverage to break both
sets of joints.
My conclusion is that in future I will avoid low temperature gluing,
but that the joints on this project are ok.
-Phil