Thread: electric hide-glue pot

Good Stuff!
A lot "unmessier" than my set-up.
Rest assured...I have just stolen your idea.

Thank You
Regards,
Noel

Great idea!.. but I don't think my missus would like me using her $1200 Elna press!....

I saw a "chocolatiere" in the supermarket for $12.95. It's a small aluminium pot (for melting chocolate) inside an electric heating arrangement.... kind of like a tiny slow cooker. Would it be hot enough for hot glue?

G'day HandyAndrea,
Does the "thingo" package give you an operating temperature??
Oh and when you say hot glue...do you mean hide glue or that stuff that goes in a hot glue gun??
For hide glue I use an old electric frypan, filled with water, and soon to be constructed like contrebasse's "jig" above. I set the temperature of the fry pan so that the glue pot is about 80º C.
The reason I went for fry pans is that you can pick them up really cheaply at garage sales/clearing sales or the equivelant....but then again $12:95 isn't that much...basically it depends on temperature............80ºC appears the go.
The next time I make choc chip cookies I'll check the temperature that chocolate melts at .......so you may be right.
In the ubeaut section down the bottom of the page there will be some info on heating glue as a downloadable pdf file
Regards
Noel

Contre, your method reminds me of when I was a postgrad student in a very run down lab about 25 years ago and we had run out of money for the year and I needed a heat source to heat some stuff in 15 mL beakers. In a corner was this old iron which like you I supported upside down, with a couple of lab clamps. It worked fine and was as big a talking point as the hair dryers we used to heat the liquid nitrogen lines from time to time.