Cheap glue pots

[graham mcdonald]

Folks,

This a bit irrelevant to our foreign members, but for those of you in Australia and handy to an Aldi supermarket, one of this week's specials is a Chocolate Moulding Kit, the basis of which is little saucepan which sits in a small hotplate which gets up to 60°C, which is just about the exact temperature one needs for cooking up hide glue. Half fill the little saucepan with water and get a shot glass (or similar) and an instant glue pot. Best thing is that they are $15. Our local Aldi has half a dozen or so left as of this evening, so if anyone wants one, and doesn't have an Aldi handy, I can go a grab one or more tomorrow and mail them next week .

Back to the football. Unfortunately it looks as if Souths are getting flogged, at half time at least

cheers

graham

[Dave White]

Mmmmmm . . . chocolate flavoured hot hide glue

[Kim]

Great idea Graham, very kind of you to offer to do this for folks. I would certainly take you up on the offer but I already have an Avent baby bottle warmer I picked up second hand quite cheap and it works very well. I think it was Colin Symonds who recommended these in a thread at the OLF and if I recall correctly Dave White uses one as well.

They take a small glue bottle just nice and the thermo is very accurate. So this is another option if you need a good glue warmer and if you know some people who have finished making a family, ask and you may get lucky.

P.S. Just had a look at the Aldi Chocolate Mould Kit, it looks real good at just $15.00 and you can buy online as well.

Cheers

Kim

[Lillian]

I will second Kim's recommendation. I picked one up off of Ebay, paying more in shipping than I did for it. I hooked it up to my digital thermometer, got it where I wanted it and then set the alarm. It varied one degree over an hour. Works for me.

[sebastiaan56]

Hi Graham,

Thanks for the tip, I'll be there tomorrow for the groceries.

Sebastiaan

[Dominic]

Thanks Graham, I found a small wax heater which does the job. About 20bucks.

But, I can't stand the smell and can't use it. I am using ubeaut pellets. Does the LMI stuff smell any better?

Dom

[graham mcdonald]

I think animal glue smells like animal glue. Its all just melted down horse's hooves or something. I rather like the smell, but I don't use it much

cheers

[Allen]

I bought 5 kg of the high clarity 192 gm strength from Tools For Wood. I don't find the smell offensive, but then again I don't mind the smell of sanding bone.

You can always put the glue into a small squeeze bottle and it will have almost no smell at all.

[Craig]

Dom.,
When I first started using hot glue as an apprentice, I didn't fancy the smell much either. In fact , I was repulsed a tad . The whole workshop would stink of it .
As time went on , I started to like it. Weird Huh ?



The smell becomes stronger as the glue gets older.


Cheers , Craig

[sebastiaan56]

Good tip Graham, thx, Emu Plains has about 30 in a stack.

[matthew]

The smell becomes stronger as the glue gets older.

and we like it more as WE get older. Funny that.

[Dominic]

I've done some stinky jobs before. I worked for the CSIRO doing experiments on sheep and we used to have to go to the abattoir a lot and collect bits. I won't go into too much detail but we weren't collecting lamb chops . Could handle all that that place could serve up. Even the blood and bone making smells. But the glue just seems to stick in my throat.

Did i read somewhere that rabbit hide glue was strongest? maybe doesn't smell as bad.