Titebond Polyurethane Liquid Glue

[JCLP]

I am in the process of building some hockey equipment storage locker and one thing I hate the most is applying 3 coats of polyurethane when it is assembled. So I decided to do a little testing with Titebond's Polyurethane Liguid Glue.
See the photos below.
The first photo shows my test assembly built with Baltic Birch. The base has 3 coats of General Finishes High Performace polyurethane sanded to a super smooth finish.The left vertical piece, small one, was not finished and glued down to the base, along with 2 - 4mm dominos and clamp for 4 hours. The right vertical piece had 3 coats of poly on the edge that was glued down, also with 2 - 4mm dominos. The edge was sanded super smooth as well. So in other words, the small piece is wood glued to poly and the large vertical piece is poly glued to poly.
After 6 hours I applied a 20lb weight to see if it would break. ( see other 2 photos ). To my amazement the glue worked perfectly.

With a successful result to my test, I am going to spray all my pieces to the storage locker with 3 coats of poly and then glue everything up.

Thought I would share.
Cheers,
JC

 

[Cheese]

That is good information to know...thanks for the post. [thumbs up]

Just curious, what grit did you sand the poly with before gluing?

 

[Kev]

That's extraordinary ... I wouldn't have imagined that to be honest.

 

[JCLP]

That is good information to know...thanks for the post. [thumbs up]

Just curious, what grit did you sand the poly with before gluing?

320 grit and then rubbed with 0000 steel wool to make it super smooth.
Cheers,

 

[semenza]

If you want to do a little more testing ........  [wink]

      I'd be curious about no clamping but pocket screws?

      And can it take more weight, maybe 50 + pounds?

Seth

 

[JCLP]

If you want to do a little more testing ........

      I'd be curious about no clamping but pocket screws?

      And can it take more weight, maybe 50 + pounds?

Seth

Seth,
Funny you should asked. I added a total of 40 lbs and let it sit for 5 minutes while I had a smoke. The shelf is about 6" wide and there was a small deflection of 2mm from the horizontal.
As for pocket screws, I don't like using screws to build cabinets etc. I'm a big fan of dominos. Just finished a kitchen with approx 65' of cabinets and I used all dominos to build the cabinets and drawers. The only screws used were to screw the cabinets together.

Cheers,
JC

 

[tjbnwi]

If you want to do a little more testing ........

      I'd be curious about no clamping but pocket screws?

      And can it take more weight, maybe 50 + pounds?

Seth

Seth,
Funny you should asked. I added a total of 40 lbs and let it sit for 5 minutes while I had a smoke. The shelf is about 6" wide and there was a small deflection of 2mm from the horizontal.
As for pocket screws, I don't like using screws to build cabinets etc. I'm a big fan of dominos. Just finished a kitchen with approx 65' of cabinets and I used all dominos to build the cabinets and drawers. The only screws used were to screw the cabinets together.

Cheers,
JC

Stop smoking...(coming from a former 40+ year smoker).

Tom