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Gorilla is good for its speciality
By:jaybabina
Date: 8/22/2016, 8:06 am
In Response To: Re: Material: How different glues perform (Brian Nystrom)

What's its specialty? Open the bottle and use it.

I always have a bottle around and for plastics its great. I have used it on wood too and it's never failed. Not for boat building but other projects. I recently did some work with polyurethane wood and had to glue some joints and the Gorilla was like a weld. I personally think the expanding aspect and foaming action is just an unfortunate side effect of the chemical properties and not a planned chemical effect. I use it without adding moisture and for the uses I needed it for, it was very strong. Not a substitute for epoxy but a simple "out-of-the-bottle, no-mixing glue that is perfect for plastics as well as a lot of other things.

It even works with metal and won't be bothered by water.

Messages In This Thread

Material: How different glues perform
Robert W -- 8/18/2016, 3:54 pm
Re: Material: How different glues perform
John Bell -- 8/18/2016, 3:56 pm
Re: Material: How different glues perform
Marc Donnelly -- 8/18/2016, 6:04 pm
Re: Material: How different glues perform
Brian Nystrom -- 8/19/2016, 10:07 am
Gorilla is good for its speciality
jaybabina -- 8/22/2016, 8:06 am
Re: Gorilla is good for its speciality
Marc Upchurch -- 8/22/2016, 9:04 am
Re: Gorilla is good for its speciality
jaybabina -- 8/22/2016, 10:38 am
Re: Gorilla is good for its speciality
Marc Donnelly -- 8/22/2016, 5:04 pm
Re: Gorilla is good for its speciality
JohnAbercrombie -- 8/22/2016, 6:43 pm
Re: Material: How different glues perform
Marc Upchurch -- 8/18/2016, 10:38 pm
Re: Material: How different glues perform - glass
Journeyman politician -- 8/18/2016, 11:08 pm
Re: Material: How different glues perform - glass
Marc Upchurch -- 8/19/2016, 6:10 pm