: Hot glue guns, like all tools, fall into the category of "you
: get what you pay for." I have much experience with the
: cheap ones as my wife owned a flower shop for many years and I
: have some experience with hot wood glue. The cheap guns and glue
: will work but not to my liking. The guns are designed to be
: plugged in a half hour before you need to use them and they are
: to be left on all day. You might get 10-12 drops of hot glue
: before you have to wait for the stick to reheat. The cheap glue
: worked fine in the flower shop - doing what it was designed to
: do.
: My gun cost about $18. I plug it in and wait for about 2 minutes
: and it is ready to use and will continuously pump out glue
: until, the stick is gone. My glue is recommended for a
: "medium" bond of wood to wood. I use hot glue as a
: clamp so it needs to hold firmly. I have never had any wood
: fiber pull out when I smacked the glue bond to break it. Also,
: never had a problem scraping off the residue with a cabinet
: scraper.
: Like all tools, you buy what you can afford that will do the job
: that you personally are comfortable with.
: Randy
: Randy

I agree completely, using the glue that doesn't bond to wood just makes a mess, won't hold well enough to do much of anything.

I've had minor tear out, usually when I used way too much glue, hey it happens :) But usually as you said the hot glue just breaks off cleanly.

Bill H.