Product Description

This polyurethane glue is the finest available for bonding wood, stone, metal, ceramics, plastics and more. Gorilla Glue® is waterproof and features an open working time of 20 minutes or more, better coverage than other adhesives, a usable temperature range of 40° - 130° and a 1 4 hour cure time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12162 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Gorilla Glue
• Model: 50008
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .80 pounds

Features

• 8-ounce bottle of Gorilla Glue adhesive
• 100-percent waterproof and stainable
• Solvent-free and environmentally friendly
• Has a usable temperature range of 40- to 130-degrees
• Bonds to ceramics, plastics, metals, stone, and more

From the Manufacturer
Gorilla Glue cures with exposure to moisture in the wood and atmosphere; it is stainable and self-spreading. It bonds exotic and common woods, as well as ceramics, plastic, metals, stone, and much more. 100% waterproof, solvent-free, and environmentally friendly. 8-ounce bottle.

Customer Reviews

GORILLA GRIP
I purchased this product by recommendation of a trusted hardware store owner to bond a loose plastic rain guard over the window of my GMC Sierra Z71 to the metal door frame. For six months I have tested the glue on various applications including wood, plastic steel, and aluminum in both land and marine environments.

This is a non-tacky liquid that requires only two things to make it work well using common sense methods to apply. Clamp/form where necessary and use water as a catylyst and bonding agent per instructions. I prefer giving the surfaces a light, fine spray of water with a good spray bottle.

A little goes a very long way. This is the most fascinating material since "aerogel". A little Gorilla will grow overnight, expanding, say, 399-400% at full cure into a final hard mass of structural air cells. Excess can be shaved or cut off and sanded, if required.

Other that the superb holding characteristics, the great wonder of this fluid polyurethane is its expansion capability to allow it to be used, also, as a filler/bonding material. I have a 12 ft. wide overhead garage door on my boathouse by-the-sea. On one horizontal section, where the glazing is stiled and railed, the wood around many of the hinge hardware has rotted. After removing the dust and fragments of the dead wood fibers, substantial areas of irregular shape remained void of any material. This poor condition makes it difficult to install new hardware and to find a surface to paint.

The solution is to clean and prep the area, spray the elements with water, with a glue brush the obscured interior areas and perimeter walls with some Gorilla. Next, cut a section of clear heavy platic sheeting, say, from a packaging bag from some item you recently bought, or a Zip-loc, of size with sufficient overlap. Then, solidly reinforce the damaged ares with a rigid, nailable sheeting to create a form, say, Luan underlayment, or equal, and tack this form to the tackable areas of the good wood. Create a fill/vent hole at the highest point on one side of the voided-to-fill area. Using the squeezable Gorilla bottle force the glue through the hole to fill, say, 1/3 of the voided volume. Sorry, but the exact amount is not known since the coefficent of expansion remains an unknown to this date, and may vary according to other elements of physics and science. But, this is pretty much a dummy-proof method. Let the project sit overnight. If you don't see an excess of Gorilla that has forced its way out the vent hole, then give another light spray shot of water through the hole and inject some more Gorilla through the hole, sit and let cure. Upon completion, cut access off, strip the form, sand, drill, if needed, and paint to finish. The extent of the area and conditions that this method of application can be used is unknown. Also, the expected shelf-life is unknown, so I bought the 8 oz. bottle. The integrity of the glue is still good after six months. Explore, test and share your results with others. This is a worthwhile product that works as I never expected.

If you have a lot of broken stuff, never leave home without your Gorilla!

Great when you have small gaps to fill
If you need a strong joint, but don't have the time or tools to make a completely tight fit, this glue works wonders. I've used it to make strong joints between plywood edges and hardwood for a table top, for dowel joints, and for screwed joints. The glue expands by about three times and will fill gaps up to about 1/32" with close to full strength, and larger gaps with less strength. One caution, as it dries, the glue foams up and you have to plan on chiselling off or power-sanding off the squeeze out. Also, you need to keep the joint under pressure for one to four hours before removing clamps. This is not a glue to use when you need the joint to set-up quickly, or when you will not be able to sand off the squeeze out. With that said, this glue makes strong joints with much less preparation than conventional glues. I use it whenever strength is critical.

Not worth the hassle
I'm writing from the perspective of a cabinetmaker. This glue may work for your particular projects, but here's why it's no good for cabinetmaking:

1) It foams. It foams a LOT!

2) The foam stains the wood. Wiping it off sort of helps, until you apply stain/varnish a week later and the stain appears a radically different color wherever you let the glue/foam touch the wood.

3) It's not as strong as alphatic resin (wood glue). Some will argue with this statement, but glue together four pieces of wood, two with alphatic resin, two with this stuff. Now smash them both. This stuff fails on the glue joint, whereas the alphatic resin will take a signifficant portion of the wood with it.

4) It's three times as expensive as wood glue.

5) It takes longer to use, since you have to moisten (with water) the two workpieces to be joined.

6) It requires a longer clamp time than wood glue.

Some will say that with practice these concerns can all be mitigated, but I've got enough trouble just training employees not to cut their fingers off in the table saw - Now I've got to "train" someone how to use glue? No Thanks.