Spalted Walt wrote in
:

One possibility is HF has a business agreement with Franklin
International to buy and repackage/rebrand TBIII factory 'seconds'
and/or unsold product that was at or near expiration date.
Hence the "too thick to flow" complaints.

Could well be. In which case they likely have some agreement,
even if just a handshake, allowing them to call it "titebond
style" or something like that.

The MSDS for "HFT" glue, if it was available, would probably
tell us the actual manufacturer. And if it was Franklin
International, we could assume it was Titebond that was in
some way out-of-spec.

John