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Re: Strip: Staple-less *PIC*
By:Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K
Date: 10/13/2015, 12:19 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Staple-less (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

Try standard Titebond (not II or III) it tacks up quicker. Use II or III if you need more working time due to the climate.

The time before you remove any clamping mechanism depends on: the glue, the weather, how tight your joints are, and how much stress is on the joint. The only way to say how long it takes is to try removing your clamp and see if bad things happen.

I agree with Nick,
Standard Titebond has very quick tack strength making it the best glue to bond strip edges.

My stapleless method of stripping with hot glue is better and faster than using staples.

If you adjust your staple gun to hold strips firmly to stations the cross bar of the staple legs will crush and bruise the end grain of the wood leaving a visible dark mark. If you reduce the firing pressure of your stapler (assuming your stapler has this option) to prevent bruising the wood you will not hold the strip firmly to the station making aligning strip edges a problem.

Staples still rely on some clamping method between stations to hold strips until the glue has cured, slowing application of the next strip to nearly an hour.

Stripping staplelessly with hot glue can hold strips firmly on the stations and clamps between stations are removed in 90 seconds.

Success is in the details of how and where to use hot glue. If you wish review my stapleless stripping method see -

http://www.laughingloon.com/shoptips2.html

Rob

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Mark N -- 10/9/2015, 7:55 pm
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Paul Davies. -- 10/10/2015, 2:12 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/10/2015, 2:37 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 10/10/2015, 7:49 am
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Thomas Duncan -- 10/10/2015, 9:41 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 10/10/2015, 10:29 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 10/10/2015, 10:25 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/13/2015, 12:19 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/13/2015, 3:00 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/13/2015, 4:36 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/13/2015, 9:49 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/13/2015, 10:13 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2015, 12:47 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2015, 12:02 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/14/2015, 4:56 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/13/2015, 10:17 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/14/2015, 6:53 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2015, 12:27 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/14/2015, 9:12 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2015, 10:13 pm
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John Messinger -- 10/10/2015, 1:44 pm
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Tom Cooper -- 10/10/2015, 7:17 pm
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Dan Thaler -- 10/11/2015, 6:02 am
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Etienne Muller -- 10/11/2015, 6:31 am
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Lou Farhood -- 10/11/2015, 5:30 pm
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Mark N -- 10/12/2015, 7:33 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/13/2015, 3:00 am
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Etienne Muller -- 10/14/2015, 2:02 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 10/14/2015, 3:31 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2015, 4:46 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2015, 5:19 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2015, 5:13 pm