Comments on: Choosing Glues

Question: Choosing Glues

cadastral — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:53:27 -0800

I would like an online resource that recommends the correct glue to use, given the two materials you would like to attach... I remember seeing something years ago that had two pull-down menus--from each you could pick a type of material (stone, wood, aluminum, plastic, pvc, leather, etc. etc.) and after doing this, it would calculate the type of glue to use.

For example: I could select "paper" in the first box, and "wood" in the second, and it would tell me to use "wood glue" after I submitted it.

I've googled every way I know how, and I can't find it... does anyone know of something similar?

By: Jon-o

Jon-o — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:56:07 -0800

well, what are you trying to attach?

Or do you just find yourself guing things often enough to need a resource?

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:57:30 -0800

Second link for google "what glue"

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:00:16 -0800

Actually, it's the first link for "glue". Not that I'm questioning your Googling, but...

By: puddinghead

puddinghead — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:02:56 -0800

This to That

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:07:08 -0800

Hey - That's what I said.

By: puddinghead

puddinghead — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:10:23 -0800

Didn't doubt you, seanyboy, I just knew it off the top of my head. I like to glue things.

By: cadastral

cadastral — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:12:51 -0800

I swear to you that I googled my ass off. I was holding it too tight... my queries were too specific.

First return for "glue"... fuck. I'm going outside.

By: Jack Karaoke

Jack Karaoke — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:16:02 -0800

As an adhesives geek, I give thistothat high marks.

They keep it simple enough that you don't get confused, but recommend some good stuff.

There are a couple gaps, and places where more detail would be useful, but overall it's good advice.

By: pencroft

pencroft — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:50:52 -0800

I will one-up Jack Karoake on the adhesives geekness: I sell glue and double-sided tape for a living.

As a shameless company promotion (and because my buddy designed the site), try here.

By: dagnyscott

dagnyscott — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:35:45 -0800

Heh, I found thistothat.com when I googled "that" and was surprised to find "that" is not on google's list of stop words (words they don't search, like "the") -- it's the 3rd result, after Web Pages that Suck and Slashdot.

By: cadastral

cadastral — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:31:32 -0800

I quit the internet.