I am considering using hot melt glue to mount completed bowls, platters, hollow forms, etc., to a stand-alone slow-turn (2 rpm) rotisserie for epoxy finishing. I might use a small face plate glued to the underside of the bowl, using hot melt glue. So it's probably going to be a temporary metal-to-wood hot melt glue joint.
(I am NOT doing this epoxy finishing on my lathe, for several reasons, mainly cleanliness. Epoxy works better in a "clean-room" environment, or as close to that as you can get, which is not my turning shed. So I'm building this rotisserie for the sole purpose of slow-turning epoxy-coated wood-turnings, while the epoxy cures.)
My question is simply this: how do you "un-do" that hot melt glue joint? Is it just a matter of heating the metal face plate until the glue releases? If so, what would you suggest for the heating, that wouldn't burn the wood at the glue joint?
(I have the feeling this question has been discussed here before, but I can't figure out how to get the Sawmill Creek search engine to search for the entire phrase, "hot melt glue", without returning results which match either "hot" or "melt" or "glue" or any combination thereof, which is way too much. Would love to know how, if it can be done.)
Thanks!
Robert