loosening liquid hide glue

[Larry Temins]

I have a slightly misaligned drawer runner which I need to straighten out. unfortunately it is both screwed into the legs and held with Titebond liquid hide glue against the lower side rail. Has anyone had success is loosening a Titebond liquid hide glue joint and if so any advice on how best to approach it?

thanks in advance

Larry

[Chris Fournier]

Clothes iron on hi heat on th erunner would do it. Use a spatula on the glue line to run down the joint. Alternatively you can just use a hot spatula on the glue line.

[Howard Acheson]

In our shop we used to open hide glue joints with an infrared heat lamp. Direct the light at the joint and keep an eye on it.

[Larry Temins]

Chris/Howard,

thanks for the quick responses. I will try using heat + spatula on the glue line.

larry

[Larry Temins]

Chris/Howard,

Success!!! I used a heat gun and a thin spatula to run down the glue line as suggested by Chris and it worked quite well.

thanks again.


Larry

[Chris Fournier]

That's great. When you've made all the mistakes that I have, you'll have quite the collection of fix-it tricks. I'm not sure why I continue to make the same mistakes over and over though...

Repair work forces you to learn un-do-its, any opportunity that you have to talk to a conservator or repair specialist take it and do whatever you have to to keep them talking. These folks have repair chops that you'd never even think of!