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Salt in your glue

MrRick
MrRick
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This is a useful tip but should be used with some wise discretion.

When you do a glue up between boards sometimes the boards will shift as you clamp under pressure.

Let's say you are making some table legs. Each leg is made of two 2x4s. You evenly spread glue on each mating surface and just before you bring the two surfaces together you sprinkle just a wee bit of table salt here and there in the glue. Just a little bit.

Then you clamp. The pieces won't slip. The glue crystals act as a non-slip anchor.

While drying the salt gets absorbed by the glue.

Just be careful you don't use too much Salt.

Experiment first.

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