[Nfb-krafters-korner] Hel need suggestionsp

[Henrietta Brewer]

Wow, Anet, that is some serious brain storming. I am impressed.
Henrietta
On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Annette Carr wrote:

> 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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> 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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