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Re: Strip: General questions
By:John Monroe
Date: 12/4/2004, 4:30 am
In Response To: Strip: General questions (Scott Guenther)

: Hello,

: 2) My construction space is not heated and I live in central Ohio. What are
: the practical temperature limits for Elmer's wood glue? (heating the space
: is way too expensive)

: Thanks for the input

: Scott

Scott my winter temperatures here in east central Indiana are about the same as yours. I used Elmers yellow glue in my attached garage with out heat, and only did my gluing when the temp was above 40 degrees and was going to stay that way for at least 4 hours while the glue dried. I didn’t have any problems. But don’t leave your glue bottle in the garage when it gets below freezing. I did and the bottle of glue jelled solid. I did a lot of fiber glassing in temperature of 45 degrees and higher using the slow epoxy. Then I waited 3 days to a week for it to set enough to work on. I tried to bring up my garage temperature using two electric heaters but after a couple of hours I could only increase the garage temperature about 10 degrees so I quit that. But you will find we have some warmer winter days that you can take advantage of them and work like crazy. The next two or three days in our area the weather is going to be in the 50’s.

John

Messages In This Thread

Strip: General questions
Scott Guenther -- 12/2/2004, 6:17 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
Gennie -- 12/5/2004, 3:25 am
Re: Strip: General questions
John Monroe -- 12/4/2004, 4:30 am
Ohio? Great State!
Bill Cruz -- 12/3/2004, 2:39 pm
Re: Ohio? Great State!
Scott Guenther -- 12/3/2004, 4:41 pm
Re: Ohio? Great State!
Bill Cruz -- 12/6/2004, 3:40 pm
Re: Ohio? Great State! *Pic*
Mark Grieve -- 12/4/2004, 1:03 am
Nice strip pattern going on.... *NM*
Bill Cruz -- 12/6/2004, 3:25 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/3/2004, 12:49 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
Bob May -- 12/3/2004, 12:24 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
john walker -- 12/3/2004, 11:58 am
Re: Strip: General questions
Mike Grace -- 12/7/2004, 7:00 pm
Re: Heating
Mike Scarborough -- 12/2/2004, 9:14 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
PatrickC -- 12/2/2004, 7:11 pm
Re: Strip: General questions *LINK*
gerald -- 12/2/2004, 7:04 pm
Re: Strip: General questions
Thomas Duncan -- 12/2/2004, 7:02 pm