meirman wrote:
In alt.home.repair on Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:11:03 -0400 willshak
posted:
meirman wrote:
In alt.home.repair on Fri, 01 Oct 2004 02:15:46 -0400 meirman
posted:
What would be a good easy-to-find glue for outside wood?
Borden's white glue says to not to submerge item, but doesn't say it
can't get wet. Or would Borden's hide glue be better?
Planned use: I can't get matching pickets for my fence anymore, so to
avoid using too many new ones from what I have, sometimes I glue an
old one back together. And this weekend, I'm screwing a patch into my
neighbor's fence 2x4, that rests on the edge of sheet of t-11 and a
couple posts, but I'd like to glue the end of the new patch to the old
2x4, if I can.
Meirman
Thanks a lot to everyone. I'm off to the hardware store right now.
Thanks especially, No one, for telling me about the hide glue. I know
I have a bottle, although I can't find it right now. I bought it
because it seemed important, for some reason.
Does it come in bottles now? I remember using hide glue back in the
1950's in wood shop. It came in chunks and had to be melted and kept
heated in an iron pot to use. I can still smell it.
I can believe it.
It came in the same plastic bottles that the white glue does.
They had Tite-Bond II, but not III. I figured I'd buy III when I can
find it, so this time I just bought Elmers ProBond Professional
Strength for Exterior Use. They also had the exterior glue in 4 oz
bottles for about a third of this 12 oz bottle. But this sounded
better.
I rebuilt my privacy fence (around a tiny patio in front of the
kitchen sliding glass door) about 3 years ago. I share the center wall
of it with my next door neighbor (It's shaped like an E.) Her
ex-husband and his friends rebuilt her fence 5 years ago, but even
though he does all kinds of DIY jobs, he didn't use treated wood, and
the pieces of new wood he added are already rotting.
Plus he left the center post we have in common. It's 25 years old and
rotting, but I'm going to squeeze a couple more years out of it. It
will be cold soon, and I have other things to do.
BTW, from their web site:
Elsie the Cow became Borden's very popular "Spokescow" in the late
1930's. She was a big hit at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and soon
afterwards the character of Elmer the Bull was created as Elsie's
husband. In the late 1940's, Borden's new Chemical Division asked to
use Elsie for its new white glue product. The thought of Elsie
representing a non-food product didn't seem appropriate, so as a
compromise, Elmer was loaned to Chemical as their very own
"spokesbull". To this day, Elmer the Bull still represents the most
recognized adhesive company.
I meant to say Elmer's glue. I could only remember the name Borden,
who makes it. Dairy, cows, cowhide, it's all related. I think Elmer
The website says twice that their glues are totally synthetic, no cows
or horses, but they don't say what the glue used to be made out of. I
think they are embarrassed.
I think it was hooves, or at least, that is what I was told.
is Elsie the cow's husband.
Meirman
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