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Friend of mine taught me a trick this evening, if you ever want to 'de-bond' Titebond. Vinegar dabbed on the glue joint.
A little vinegar, a few minutes, a little wobble, and Bob's your uncle. Try it out and you're ready to try again without any damage to the wood - including balsa.
Rocket Scented
I'm not sure about titebond, but water will disolve Gorrila wood glue.
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I was told by someone that I live in isolated northern voids of the continental US
Born Again Rocketeer
Did not know that, thanks for sharing!
It also cleans up rocket motors better than anything else I've found. If I drop my RMS motors in a tupperware of vinegar overnight, they're all shinny clean in the morning after a brief wipe off with a paper towel--like new, low effort. And the anodizing doesn't come off either (or hasn't for me after many times doing this).
Mark Rose
Las Vegas, NV
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Thanks for the tip and congrats, too.
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A friend of mine had to remove some fins that he glued on with Titebond. The alignment ended up being so horrible that he got to use the vinegar trick. He reported that it works quite well. He applied it with a quetip. Waited a bit. Wiggled a bit. It did take the paper with it, but it was much cleaner than just ripping the dang things off. (OK it was me, but let's keep that between the two of us.)
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It also can act as a thinner for your old bottle of wood glue.
It's an old wood workers trick.
JD
Last edited by JDcluster; 10th July 2010 at 04:02 PM.
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Will this work with Elmer's wood glue too?
Michael NAR# 89304
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Should do. From what I understand, it's well known in wood working circles.
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Thanks Troy I though that would be the case.
Michael NAR# 89304
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I found out, by using them too close together, that CA will also debond Titebond II wood glue.
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Bob's your uncle? Yeah, I do have an uncle Bob but how did you know?
Oh, thanks for the titebond tip.
Jeff Vegh
TRA# 03011
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High on AP and sparkies
But what disolves CA?
Matt Tripoli Junior Member# 14257
2013 motors:
AT 38-360 H178DM (283ns)
CTI Pro-29 3 Grain 138G106-14A (138ns)
CTI Pro-29 1 Grain 55F29-12A (55ns)
Estes C6-5 (9ns)
Estes B4-2 (4ns)
Total Newton Seconds for 2013: 489ns
2.4% of N5800
Largest Motor flown: Aerotech H178DM (38-360)
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CA Debonder. Avon Skin So Soft. Acetone.
Kit (AKA Cranky Kong)
Total Total Impulse as BAR: 7,753.69 Ns (Equivalent to a 51% M motor.)
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The Pacific
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Nail polish remover works too. I'd bet paint thinners, gasoline, kerosine, and various other nasty liquids would work, but not very safely. I once brought up using gasoline to clean metal surfaces prior to painting to a paint guy at home depot, he looked at me like I was nuts.
The Devil's in the details, but so is salvation.- Hyman Rickover
Chris Feld
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Millwrights and Machine Erectors Local 548
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Don't use gasoline. This was the topic of a recent discussion on the aRocket list. Gasoline contains, amongst other things, benzene. Benzene is not exactly healthy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene#Health_effects
Use for example acetone, isopropanol or ethanol. Neither of these solvents would qualify as kids toys, but they are much safer then gasoline.
Reinhard
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