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7th April 2018, 08:26 PM #1Senior Member
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Glue cleanup dificulty
Howdy, I glued a couple of timber pieces together by clamping them down to my bench top and using another piece of scrap on top. I used glad wrap on each side of the joint so it wouldn't stick to my bench or the scrap. Fair enough, that worked well and the glad wrap just peeled away easily.
Problem is, it's really hard to get the excess Titebond (green label) off the timber. It dries to something like nylon and doesn't want to sand.
I even tried my multi-tool with 40 grit but the glue didn't respond to that at all.
What do you do ?
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7th April 2018, 08:56 PM #2Taking a break
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A multi tool won't do what you want, you need a real sander; either belt or orbital. Hand plane or scraper will also work if you want to do it by hand.
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7th April 2018, 09:14 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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It sands off pretty easily. It does need to be dry, not fully cured, but dry. the colour should be slightly translucent. If you tried to sand the glue shortly after removing the glad wrap (when it is still an opaque colour), it will unlikely be dry enough to sand well, but you can still burn your way through it by gumming up sand paper discs/belts.
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Put PVC plumbing glue primer (the clear type) on the glue and it will turn gummy and scrap off easily without soaking into the wood.
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7th April 2018, 10:49 PM #8China
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For 40 plus years of Cabinet Making my first go to for removing excess dried glue is a scraper, followed by appropriate sanding
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8th April 2018, 12:25 AM #9Senior Member
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Ok well I don't own a scraper, so I just went looking on Youtube. Plenty of vids there showing how to make one from an old saw.
Looks like I've got another project to do.
I notice everyone pushes the scraper away from themselves. Wouldn't a person have more control by pulling it ?
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8th April 2018, 01:19 AM #11China
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Scraper is use pushing away as you put a slight curve in with you thumbs, would be much more difficult if pulling
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1st June 2019, 05:05 PM #12Senior Member
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not at all familliar with the glue in question but as a general rule try a scraper as some glues will gumm up a sanding belt in seconds.
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