In this past year I read an article in one of the woodworking magazines
where they explained how to decode the numbers printed on the glue bottles
of the leading manufacturers. As you can imagine a year shelf life is not a
long time unless you working on a big project and to buy glue that's been
sitting around...well you get the picture. So I can't remember where I read
it & I can't find the info on the net and I need to get some titebond lll &
was hoping to be able to determine how fresh it was.
Anybody else know this info?

Titebond....First number represents the final digit in the year made
followed by letter designating month....A Jan..B feb. etc. Letter I is
skipped because it looks like a one.
"Chris" wrote in message
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In this past year I read an article in one of the woodworking magazines
where they explained how to decode the numbers printed on the glue bottles
of the leading manufacturers. As you can imagine a year shelf life is not
a long time unless you working on a big project and to buy glue that's
been sitting around...well you get the picture. So I can't remember where
I read it & I can't find the info on the net and I need to get some
titebond lll & was hoping to be able to determine how fresh it was.
Anybody else know this info?

Thanks!

"Lee" wrote in message
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Titebond....First number represents the final digit in the year made
followed by letter designating month....A Jan..B feb. etc. Letter I is
skipped because it looks like a one.
"Chris" wrote in message
...
In this past year I read an article in one of the woodworking magazines
where they explained how to decode the numbers printed on the glue
bottles of the leading manufacturers. As you can imagine a year shelf
life is not a long time unless you working on a big project and to buy
glue that's been sitting around...well you get the picture. So I can't
remember where I read it & I can't find the info on the net and I need to
get some titebond lll & was hoping to be able to determine how fresh it
was.
Anybody else know this info?

"Chris" wrote in message
...
In this past year I read an article in one of the woodworking magazines
where they explained how to decode the numbers printed on the glue bottles
of the leading manufacturers. As you can imagine a year shelf life is not
a long time unless you working on a big project and to buy glue that's
been sitting around...well you get the picture. So I can't remember where
I read it & I can't find the info on the net and I need to get some
titebond lll & was hoping to be able to determine how fresh it was.
Anybody else know this info?
Somebody gave me a bottle of Titebond as a gag gift. About 8 years later I
actually used it. Worked fine.
This was before I got into woodworking, obviously.

Sat, Apr 28, 2007, 8:18am (Chris) doth mumble:
snip As you can imagine a year shelf life is not a long time unless
you working on a big project and to buy glue that's been sitting
around...well you get the picture. snip

Yeah I get the picture. Or at least A picture. It's a no brainer,
if you've got nothing better to do then worry about something like that,
buy smaller bottles of glue.



JOAT
If you don't ask the right questions, the answers don't matter.
- W.S. Lind

Buying a smaller out of date bottle of glue isn't much of a help.

"J T" wrote in message
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Sat, Apr 28, 2007, 8:18am (Chris) doth mumble:
snip As you can imagine a year shelf life is not a long time unless
you working on a big project and to buy glue that's been sitting
around...well you get the picture. snip

Yeah I get the picture. Or at least A picture. It's a no brainer,
if you've got nothing better to do then worry about something like that,
buy smaller bottles of glue.



JOAT
If you don't ask the right questions, the answers don't matter.
- W.S. Lind