Gorilla Glue 50004 Adhesive, 4-Ounces
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Gorilla Glue 50004 Adhesive, 4-Ounces
Customer Review: It might be strong but difficult to work with.
Summary: 2 Stars
Gorilla glue might be very strong but it is not user friendly for woodworking. It has some major drawbacks. It is not water soluble so you cannot wipe the excess with a wet rag (I had to use lacquer thinner). It expands quite a bit which means even if you wipe the excess initially, you are still going to have it coming out of the joint. Don't even think about using it to glue anything without using clamps, as the expansion of the glue will cause the parts to move. The bottle cap is cheap and it broke at the bottle when I tried to pull off the cap (which of course glued itself to the nozzle).
I've gone back to conventional woodworking glues and the new ones (tite-bond) are very strong so there is no real advantage to Gorilla glue.
Customer Review: Really Good Glue! Use With Caution! Recommended
Summary: 4 Stars
"Gorilla Glue" has become one of the most used "tools" in our house. We have used it to repair wooden chairs, fix a wooden medicine chest, glue soles back on to sneekers, fill cracks in a wall, and at least half a dozen other fixes in the past month.
Here are my observations:
* You must read the directions!
* Surface needs to be damp for the glue to work
* Use clamps when possible
* It expands a *LOT*, use with caution or you might accidently glue your project to the table as it expands overnight! This happend to me :-)
* This is strong glue and hard to get off once it is on a surface
Highly recommended!
Customer Review: Not an All-Purpose Glue
Summary: 3 Stars
I think this glue is best used for porous surfaces like stone, wood, drywall, foam, rug material, cloth and brickwork. It dries brittle, with practically no elasticity, so I don't recommend it for automotive applications where there is a lot of mechanical vibration. It also takes longer than 24 hours to dry, and it foams and leaves a lot of run-off. So if you have holes or voids to fill, this glue is perfect. I consider Gorilla Glue to be the new improved, waterproof version of white glue. The manufacturer claims this is the world's strongest glue, but I don't think so. And it's not an all-purpose glue like Household Goop, or The Welder.Customer Review: Can't be beat for ceramic and brick
Summary: 5 Stars
Repairman we had used Gorilla glue to adhere a piece of ceramic tile for our backsplash behind the sink. It's holding fine after 3 months now. On his way out the door I asked him if it could be used outside and he said yes. Reason I asked was I had a brick from a low brick wall that had become completely loose. He grabbed the loose brick, wiped the dirt off it with his hands, put a few drops of Gorilla glue on it and pressed it in place. This was in the middle of winter. I checked it a few months later and was amazed that it held. I gave it a couple of kicks and it wouldn't budge. No fancy surface prep at all. It's good stuff.Customer Review: WAY overrated
Summary: 1 Stars
Mike says:
November 4, 2009 at 11:15 am
I think Gorilla Glue is crap. I made a repair with it and it failed costing me a job and a client. Sure it sticks to wood but what glue doesn't.
You want to do the job right use wood glue for wood and epoxy for anything else that really needs a good bond.
Seriously I used this stuff for numerous glue jobs and it expands, foams up and really does not stick very well.
I am 49 years old and was a professional carpenter for 7 years. I own a business that used to repair speakers and am quite experienced in the use of glue. Nothing sticks like a good epoxy.