petrafied yellow glue

[bobhenry]

Snowing yesterday ( It's Indiana and tourney time ) blowing like crazy so I stayed inside. Stoked the wood burner and went out just long enough to bring in the camp kitchen I'm building for Eggbert (my 3x5 motorcycle teardrop). Set up the compound miter saw on the potting bench on the deck just 4-5 steps out the kitchen door and drug the little compresser into the kitchen. ( No I'm not single she just accepts the fact i'm a little crazy but my little Scottish Terrier was bitching enough for both of them)
The only reason for telling you all of this is that I have gone to a great deal of time and trouble dragging toteing and fetching all my tools and toys only to find that the glue that I intend to use in this project has turned into a gelatinous mass with the consistancy of 5 day old chewing gum stuck under a chair. It's 15 miles north or 15 miles south to the nearest hardware store and I have no intention of going out. Desperation sometime leads to wonderful discoveries. By adding about an ounce of water to the blob of glue and placing it in the microwave for a minute and a half to warm I was finally able to penetrate it with a steel kabob skewer.
Stiring with the skewer I was able to get it broke up and with another trip into the microwave and some more aggitation I had glue. Looked good worked great Yeah there were a few globuals that had to be removed but you can revive dead yellow glue.

[angib]

If you let epoxy resin get cold, some similar happens except as well as turning to jelly, it gets cloudy lumps in it. Standing the jar/pot of resin in a pan of hot water to heat up the resin makes it all go away, like for the wood glue.

But it's important to let the resin cool down to ambient temperature afterwards, as if you mix the resin hot/warm, it'll go off almost as soon as it's mixed!

Andrew

[Steve Frederick]

But it's important to let the resin cool down to ambient temperature afterwards, as if you mix the resin hot/warm, it'll go off almost as soon as it's mixed!

Andrew

I forgot about this issue! I took some material out of my heated storage cabinet..It kicked before I could get it thoroughly mixed, and out of the cup!
The temp in the cabinet==70-deg, in the shop==60-deg.