[Nfb-krafters-korner] Hel need suggestions

[Blindhands at aol.com]

I tried putting the glue on pin back and I tried putting putting it on the  
cylinder.  Fact is pin back is 3/4 inches and the the cylinder is 1 1/4  
inches so I hold the pin back with my thumb and pointer finger and usually it  
takes me at least 2 times going back and forth on pin back to be sure I got 
glue  on it.  and then I put the glue gun down and have to pick up the pin, 
kinda  feel how to line it up and then put it in place.  I then let go of 
the pin  back and put my thumb on top of the pin to add pressure to the pin 
back into the  glue.  Now let me back up just a little.  Did I say how I tell 
if I  got enough hot glue on the pin back?  As soon as it starts burning my 
 thumb, I start to put the glue gun down.  I try not to danc around saying  
ouch, ouch , ouch too much, I try not to shake my hand and get 
distracted[it is  distracting when this hot glue hits the back of your thumb nail.  All 
I  want is to get this cylinder in place ASAP.  Let me tell you how  
disappointing it is when I put it down and find out I didn't get enough glue on  
it, or I was too late and the glue is hard or when I got too much glue and 
there  seems to be a glob on the cylinder.[This isn't too bad as I take my 
finger nail  and scrape it off after it is hardened.][As long as I don't take 
too much  andloosen the pin back up]-did that too.  The biggest disappointment 
is  when I get it all OK and open the pin and try pinning it to the card 
stock and  then closing the pin back and trying not to bend the card I pull 
the pin back  off on one part.bummer...
 
But I keep trying.  I got 3 done last night before I went out out  of a 
tototal of 8.  That is what I donated to the Ladies Night out at the  VFW.   
 
So I added to my donation by bringing a half bag of 3 pounds of chocolate  
kisses and gave them all to the disc jockey and told him he could give 
kisses to  all the ladies.  The bag was empty by the end of the night.  They even 
 got me up to sing Amazing by Lone Star.  Of course some of the other 
ladies  got up and helped me out singing.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 9/15/2011 9:19:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov writes:

Joyce,  try putting the hot glue on the back of the pin and then putting 
the pin on  the plastic cylinder.

Cindy Z.

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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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