[ATM] Gorilla glue

Anthony Stillman atmer at rocketmail.com
Fri May 7 09:01:10 JST 2010


A while back I wrote 
that Gorilla glue has "no" tensional strength.  That it is "easily" pulled 
apart.  Those remarks were based in part on a bad hair day.  Since then I've done several catastrophic failure tests.  In all cases the glue failed, not the wood.  The largest pre-failure 
load was 145 pounds per square inch. <http://www.atmlist.net/contrib/atmer-at-rocketmail-dot-com/glue/gorilla%20glue.jpg>  While that's certainly not "no" tensional strength, compared to a real wood glue its terrible.  

I'm fine with Gorilla glue for all the things it's good for.  Depending 
on it to safe guard a large well figured mirror would not be one of them.

Anthony


      


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