Just wanted to update something regarding Gorilla Super Glue. So far, since i'm shut down from going any further until my dowels arrive, by mail, that haven't even been shipped yet, the work I've completed to this point using Gorilla Super Glue, not the foamy stuff or the stuff in the commercial where the gorilla invades the home of the nice couple and repairs their glass coffee table. Just the tiny tube stuff with the blue cap that looks like any of your mainline super glues. My balsa wood frame for my covered bridge is still there, tight, hasn't shown any compromising appearance due to the glue. As I stated a few days ago when I brought up this project with the forum, I tried buying Testors model glue because it had a brush application. But, sadly, and stupidly on my part, I didn't read the label where it said plainly, "for plastic".
I don't like the tube glues because regardless of how you try to dab that stuff on, gravity takes over, or like caulk tubes, you're finished caulking, but the tube isn't finished presenting the caulk out the end of the nozzle. I don't know if you have ever experienced that phenomenon, but the only thing I've ever found that stops the flow is to yank the plunger back and kill the pressure. Glues can do that, shampoo bottles, you squeeze out what you need, it pours out uncontrollably. My glue has done this once or twice but not over and over. But......once the pole is up or support beam is on, it's on. Not only that, if you can set the pole or the beam in place fast enough, you don't have to hold it long to be able to let it go. Just don't accidentally get any on your fingers, and be careful, glue is like a virus, it hunts for hosts. So don't get your level too close to where you glued the post to the shelf because this stuff doesn't discriminate, it sticks to wood, plastic, metal, hair, fingernails, your dog, your cat, drywall, hamburger, skin, and can be used to seal up cuts that won't stop bleeding.
As for that foamy, water activated stuff, I never could get that stuff to work. ONE LAST WARNING. Sorry. Don't, I repeat, don't, use any of this type of glue on Styrofoam of any kind. I was worried that balsa wood might fit that category, but so far I haven't seen this. Glue not specifically stated on the packaging to be designed for use with foam based products, will eat through Styrofoam like acid. I made the mistake of trying a quick fix once using some of that white packaging block Styrofoam that when you cut it with a hot knife it makes spider webs. I forgot, used gorilla glue, couldn't get it to stick. Looked on the back where I dabbed the glue, major hole was forming.
