[Nfb-krafters-korner] Hel need suggestionsp

Annette Carr amcarr1 at verizon.net
Thu Sep 15 23:36:01 UTC 2011


How many of these do you have to do?  What about creating some type of jig?
I'm thinking something made of Styrofoam and some pegs made of wire,
plastic, wood, etc. The pegs would need to be very thin.  Maybe the
thickness of spaghetti.  The Styrofoam would be flat on the table.  The 4 to
6 pegs would be stuck into the Styrofoam so as to surround the pinback.  The
height of the pegs only need to be as tall as the assembled unit or slightly
lower.  The Pegs would hold the pinback in place.  You might want to open
the pinback so that you can poke the pin into the Styrofoam for extra
stability.  Now apply the glue and then the item you are gluing to the
pinback.  Once you have it glued together, remove the assembled unit and
place it on another piece of Styrofoam.  Poking the pin into the Styrofoam
will hold it still while the glue dries.

I really do not know if this will work, but I am tossing this out there as a
brainstorming exercise.

Annette


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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:39 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Hel need suggestionsp

I am making these pins and I have purchased the pin backs that are 3/4 inch
long.  I need to glue the pin backs to a plastic cylinder.  So now I
purchased a small hot glue gun and tried that.  Well yep I seem to be
burning my fingers if I put the glue on the cylinder and then pick up the
pin  and try to find where I glued it.  I can take the burnt fingers, but if
I  take too long to figure out where to put the pin back and where the glue
is, the glue begins to cool and get hard so it won't stick properly.
 
So I tried Aleene's Tacky jar glue.  This I used actually one of those
little plastic cheese spreaders that you get in those packages that have 4
crackers and the smooth cheese you spread on the crackers.  Well I did a
pretty good jjob putting the glue on and the pin back.  I even did not get
too much glue squeezing out under the pin back, but...  When I opened up
the pin back to pin it on the cards I have made up for the pins.  I guess I
didn't use enough glue as the backs came off the cylinders.
 
I figure I can give crazy glue a try, but any suggestions how to not get the
glue dripping off the cylinder?  How to locate pin back to glue spot fast
enough without seeing?  And how do I do this without gluing my fingers  or
pin or pin back to the above mentioned places?  I can easily clean the glue
that I have used so far off the granite counter, but I need some suggestions
here.
 
Help, Help, Help!
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) Blindhands at AOL.com
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