[Nfb-krafters-korner] Hel need suggestionsp

[Annette Carr]

If I had a piece of Styrofoam in the house, I would have been breaking out
the spaghetti to see if I could construct it.  I love figuring out these
type of things.

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[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Henrietta
Brewer
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Hel need suggestionsp

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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> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:39 PM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> 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/) 
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