Making and using a Shellac Chuck.

Agree but I canna pinch any card claggy anymore about the only drawback of retiring
Used to hate cleaning those glue heads although the smell was nice

I've got one of those Stihl Leaf blowers and shredders. The collection bag is somewhat 'moth eaten' having been near the hot exhaust . So I could patch the holes with my glue sticks and an electric iron.

Thanks John. If it fails, nothing is really lost

Regards

N

Being deaf and living on my own, I tend to carry my house phone in a trouser pocket. However, propping myself up against tables etc and I press buttons accidentally. I have a sewing machine but it is really too heavy now.
My late wife used to collect chamois leathers for sax and clarinet pull throughs and I have a number of masonic aprons with pockets and I have a welder's 'pinnie'. So the idea has formulated.

Sounds a great 5 minute job to put a phone pocket in my welder's apron by hot gluing.

Thanks

N

Good Morning Norman,

I like the idea of a phone pocket on the apron ! Do you have a glue gun ? Aldi have one at £3.99. Nice trigger feed. I've considered buying one as a spare, the one that I have is over 30 years old, and I'm sure it will pack in at some point.

fcheslop said:

Agree but I canna pinch any card claggy anymore about the only drawback of retiring
Used to hate cleaning those glue heads although the smell was nice

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Mmm, Thats where my pellets came from

Greetings John
My old Aldi gun was almost worn out and in the course of reading up and following the subject, I realised that there was a strong possibility that a glue stick from one place might not be the same. as another. I saw a remark from Loctite that their sticks regained full strength after 2 minutes. Of course I had no idea of whether the Loctite variety would fit my old Aldi glue gun. So instead of farting on over minuscule things, I said ' Spherical Objects' and bought a new gun recommended by Loctite and a supply of their 11mm sticks.
Time will tell. So my thanks and good wishes.

N

Hi,

That's an interesting technique utilising the easy melt-ability of shellac. (I thought you could melt it with an electric hotplate too. A bit slower but no burning. I was wondering if you couldn't do it also with an appropriate wax - maybe beeswax which is a bit sticky (might have insect resins in it, like shellac. ) I guess the soldier idea previously suggested is much the same.

I think the hot plate idea could work, I have used a hot air gun to melt shellac. I have only experience with shellac and to a lesser extent with super glue other forms of adhesive could also work well.

Regards Tony.

Youtuber Clickspring has several vids showing the use of CA glue, medium I think. No heat to apply, just some heat to remove.
I have a shellac stick so that is what I use.
Hot melt glue should work too.
I think some weight while the chuck is cooling will give you the thinnest layer under the work pice is best.
Sealing wax might work as well.

Thanks Tony for the wonderful video on Shellac Chucks. I'd heard of them before but never considered using one until now. I'm converted and I will be making one at the first chance I get. Your chuck is the answer to a problem I was trying to solve. Thanks Tony. Rocket

BaronJ said:

Hi Norman,

Unfortunately there are several different types of hot melt adhesive. Some are quite hard and rigid, whilst they all will work to secure belt joints, the ones that rapidly fail are the ones that set hard, becoming quite rigid. The joint tends to break up when going around the rollers. The smaller the roller the worse it is.

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Right, there are many kinds of adhesives with widely varying qualities, like being thermoplastic (hot glue) or being flexible. Good old contact cement was the glue for shoes for a reason - it remains flexible and bonds differing materials (VOCs notwithstanding). Resourcinol is a brilliant waterproof wood glue, but surfaces must be tightly matched - it doesn't fill gaps.
So it goes, horses for courses. Superglue, as most know, was developed for emergency sutures in Vietnam, that's why it sticks your fingers together - its designed to. But I'm suspicious of the 'cyan' in cyanoacrylate.

Hi Tony, I have found the shellac sticks under horological supplies here in US. Not too expensive. I did try a number of Hot melt Glues previously. For some reason they did not work as well as shellac.
Thanks for sharing the info. p.s. I have heard lathes that make more noise than yours - I thought that was "normal" for a belt driven lathe!! Yes I am nearly deaf!

Anatol

Thank you, I WAS with it. Today merely wanting to be brought up in whatever the present technology is.
The trouble today is that most of these modern glues are sold under trade names which mean little to anyone in another country.

As A young man, I actually modified linseed oil fatty acids, worked with maleic and thallic anhydrides and made resins for all sorts of things like epoxy coatings and polyesters for the things like fireproof resins for tankers. We were quite an adventurous crowd and we built perhaps the first fibreglass kayaks in the UK, hovercraft and repair of somewhat shattered old sailing dinghies with accelerated gels.

As far as a bit more modern stuff, I married the second lady Fellow of the Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh, she had a diploma in Orthodontics. My daughter did much the same and married a senior consultant heart surgeon.
Long before all this RAF 31 Squadron- the Goldstars flew ambulance aircraft and , of course, we had the RAF Antarctic Flight. When Cpl Leslie Quar was killed in Queenmaudland, I volunteers but was a conscript but later I trained out in Mountain Rescue in winter in Arctic Norway and helped found the first civilian mountain rescue team.

So I'm quite with it but rather old for such exploits now. What I am interested in - and this is part of things, is UV setting plastics which are now used with my daughter''s orthodontic work.

Not bad for a 'bean counter'- or should I say, a one that retired 33 years ago.

Cheers

N