Thread: Ungluing Hot Melt Glue

Depending on how thin the timber is (and how wide an area the glue covers) a cheap hand-held hairdryer can do the trick.

Stick it in the fridge or freezer and it will break apart a treat, no worries.

Cheers - Neil

Thanks guys, new there had to be a simple way.

Mallet.

Even simpler ;-}

(Oh OK, with this method you risk chipping out some of the surface.)

Originally Posted by rsser

Mallet.

Even simpler ;-}

(Oh OK, with this method you risk chipping out some of the surface.)

Haven't tried the hair dryer or fridge yet, but I have tried the hammer and block before and it didn't budge it . I am using a high quality glue, lower quality glues had a tendancy to release whilst in the lathe:eek: .

Yeah, as the missus might say, it's all a matter of timing

I saw some articles a few years ago about using dead video heads as the work carrier and more recently custom made aluminium pucks.

you make up a heating plate out of an old clothes iron

the aluminium mount is heated on the heating plate when mounting up and you get it off the same way.

havn't tried it or seen it for real but it seems to have promise.

cheers

Went to a woodies design workshop today, and one of the hints I picked up (when I wasn't nodding off ) was to put the hot glued item in the microwave for a few seconds.

Cheers
Tikki

I use thinners to melt the hot melt glue I use to mount blanks to templates for routing copies.
Works a treat & doesn't raise the grain

Originally Posted by Tikki

Went to a woodies design workshop today, and one of the hints I picked up (when I wasn't nodding off ) was to put the hot glued item in the microwave for a few seconds.

Cheers
Tikki

HiYa Tikki! The design workshop was that enthralling then? :eek:

HiYa back Steve!

It was as boring as .... the instructors were woodturners who wouldn't know the first thing about intarsia I really wanted to rush out and buy a lathe by the end of the day ... NOT!

Cheers
Tikki

I use pine offcutts with Hot Melt for work held on worm screw.
To remove I split the pine into slim pieces down the end grain (rest pine block on support) with a malet & chisel, most times you can break off the narrower pieces by hand.

Gidday

I was told and it worked O.K. for me, to use a very thin bit of copper wire and with the piece turning in the lathe hold the wire on the glue and friction heats it up and parts it like cutting warm butter with a hot chainsaw.

Just bring your work down to my shed. The steel walls heat up in the PM sun and (this was my first go) all the brackets fall off the walls and the hooks (for the vac - connected to small hand tools with 25MM dust port) drop to the ground.

Hot melt glue, I feel, is only suitable for temporary holds whilst you apply the correct fastening.

My shed got to 42 degrees on New Years day!