Hot Glue for Face Plate Turning

I just turned a piece using my lathe face plate and a piece of scrap hot glued on to the work piece. It worked terrifically, but gave me a bit of a problem removing the scrap. Can someone give me an idea of how much I really need? I cut little slices off a glue stick and heated it with a heat gun, so I wasn't dealing with glue setting up too quickly.

Does the hot glue tend to be a problem when you turn the other side? I didn't have a problem with my bowl gouge, except for having to peel off some thin melted hot glue. Would a bit of wax be worthwhile in preventing sticking?

Puckdropper

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Puckdropper
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Would keep the glue from gluing :-).

Old trick is to glue the piece to the mounting block with regular carpenters glue, but with a piece of brown paper in between.

P.S. Super glue doesn't react well to shocks - I wonder about hot glue. Could be a catch might break the bond.

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Larry Blanchard

I have a small aluminium disc the back of which was made to fit my chuck. I can glue this onto small pieces of wood using a hot melt glue in sheet form and an old electric clothes iron. I can then remove it from the work piece by heating it with the same iron. I bought this many years ago so I don't know where you would be able to buy that glue product but you should be able to smear some glue from a the hot gun onto a metal disc and adapt the ironing method. Graham

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graham

graham wrote in news:no7pqn$s61$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

That's an interesting idea. I'll have to see about picking up a metal disk of the right size somewhere. How big is your disc?

I wonder if my lathe face plate would take to being used in this manner?

Puckdropper

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Puckdropper

It would be easy enough to machine on your woodlathe using HSS tools.

Mine is about 50mm in diameter with 4 or 5, equally spaced, concentric little grooves on the face. It is about 5mm thick where the chuck jaws clamp onto the back.

I doubt it. Too much thermal mass. Graham

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graham

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