Thread: Titebond buggered bottle

Yup. I just gotta ask though... what took you so long to work it out?

Actually, I find those twist-top sauce bottles just as hard to clean out, especially if you continually forget to seal 'em after use. My preference is for the old fashioned cap-on-a-flap plastic bottles.

The wider hole when the cap's unscrewed is much easier to refill from the 4L container without ending up in a sticky situation, too!

I have never forgotten to reseal, just the residual glue tends to gum up in the nozzle.
And how do you clean out the original nozzles????

Unscrew the cap and run it under the hot tap for a minute.

The titebond nozzles are fantastic, heaps better than sauce bottles

Sauce squeeze bottles have their uses BUT....
If you have ever opened a 1litre can of Penetrol & not used it in a month or 2, it starts to go off.
I got the big Idea of transferring it to plastic sauce bottles & squeezing all the air out before I stored it.
The penetrol RIPPED the bottle open down the side & set hard.
That bloody stuff will do anything to get at air.

Stick the nozzle in the vice. Pull the bottle.

The dead glue will then just peal off. DAMHIK

Plus, I've used a utility knife to scrape away the residual. But don't get too aggressive or you can cut the entire top off.

DAMHIKT!

I just bought something called a Gluebot made by Fastcap. It works a treat as it is designed to "suck" the glue back from the tip when you are finished laying down a line of adhesive.

Sounds inconvenient and smartarse, I know, but I've found it best after each day's use to remove the nozzle top and flush it out. Saves heaps of trouble later. Same reason to flush spray can nozzles with included propellant.

Joe

Originally Posted by joe greiner

smartarse

Good to see you got the spelling right, Joe

My name is Bond, Tite Bond.

Just occurred to me. I wonder if those syrup bottles with the one way valve will work for the glue as well??
Les

Bloody hell Les, how long has that penny been falling for.... 2 weeks?

Just checked the pantry. Have one that is almost empty ...
Maybe I will have lots of syrup on toast in the morning .
Les

In fact, this syrup plastic bottle being used for my titebond wood glue may be the BEST thing since sliced bread!!! Hope it will work well.
Hopefully yours
Les

I use a couple of these. At the end of gluing put the cap back on and throw whatever nozzle into a container of water until its needed again

Woodcutta