Gorilla Glue

[GuyBoden]

A few thoughts on the original Gorilla Glue.

Gorilla glue is made from polyurethane, so expands during curing, so it's a strange glue. It's become popular due to a lot of promotion/advertising.

When you glue two surfaces together with the stuff, after curing you get a layer of polyurethane foam between the surfaces. Not really what you need in most situations, IMHO.

 

[MontyVeda]

if it sticks things together, does it matter?

 

[newts]

Gorilla also make a pva glue.
Horses for courses with glues & adhesives.
Polyurethane would be used for its gap filling properties where tight fitting parts is not possible.
Laminated timber beams would be a common example.
Don't forget it sticks like s**t to a blanket with everything it come into contact with, including hands

 

[Milkfloat]

Not a fan of it, and to be fair I often have problems with it actually sticking things together.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Interesting - I like their clear tape, but have never used this.

Looking at posts above, seems to be an issue even with gap-filling wooden joints:

https://woodgears.ca/joint_strength/gorilla_glue.html

 

[ColinJ]

if it sticks things together, does it matter?

It would if the bits being glued together needed to fit within a defined space!

 

[MichaelW2]

You have to clamp bits together tightly to get max strength joint. I have used a fair amount. I cant recall if I used gorilla or pva on a plant pot stand that fell apart after 1 year outside.

 

[PeteXXX]

If I remember rightly, you're supposed to trim the excess that oozes out of the join before it's cured fully.
Good glue, tbh.

 

[MontyVeda]

If I remember rightly, you're supposed to trim the excess that oozes out of the join before it's cured fully.
Good glue, tbh.

My dad told me to use gorilla glue for the cap-stone on his gate post after the cement bond failed. A few weeks later he reversed the car into the gatepost and sent the whole thing toping... but the capstone remained firmly in place... so I gorilla glued the bricks back together

 

[ColinJ]

My dad told me to use gorilla glue for the cap-stone on his gate post after the cement bond failed. A few weeks later he reversed the car into the gatepost and sent the whole thing toping... but the capstone remained firmly in place... so I gorilla glued the bricks back together

The second time that he reversed into it, you used Gorilla Glue to glue the car back together!

 

[Bazzer]

It has worked for strings of solar powered LEDs I fitted to the edge of some block paving, to define a raised edge.
I previously used 2 part epoxy resin, but after a few months they would start start to detach. I cut off the old epoxy and Gorilla glued them last Spring. The LEDs are still firmly fixed to the paving.

 

[rockyroller]

fwiw - this is my go-to glue for small things. I wear disposable gloves when I use it

LOCTITE Powerflex Ultra Control Gel Super Glue 3g by Loctite

 

[Drago]

I've heard that it contains real gorilla.

 

[rockyroller]

I've heard that it contains real gorilla.

lol, no it's for gluing gorillas to other things. is it Friday yet?

 

[HMS_Dave]

I've heard that it contains real David Bellamy