Chair Doctor Glie

[George Denecke]

Has anyone ever used "Chair Doctor Glue" from Lee Valley??  A friend needs several rungs & spindles reglued on a Windsor Chair.

Are there other similar products out there??

THX....................George

[Phil Thien]

I use epoxy where I can.

And I don't remove the old glue. I know people say you should remove all the old glue seems to provide some teeth for the epoxy.

Sitting in a rocking chair now, that I did maybe seven years ago. Use it 3-4 hours per day. I'm a big guy. Chair is solid as a rock.

[Wild Turkey]

Used on some chairs and it worked so well I don't remember which ones I used it on. 

[Handplanesandmore]

I use epoxy where I can.

And I don't remove the old glue. I know people say you should remove all the old glue seems to provide some teeth for the epoxy.

Sitting in a rocking chair now, that I did maybe seven years ago. Use it 3-4 hours per day. I'm a big guy. Chair is solid as a rock.

Depending on what old glue you had in your chair to start with (or whether it was a starved joint from the get-go, the "starver", the better as there'd be more exposed wood). Epoxy sticks to old epoxy, polyurethane, and resorcinol pretty well.

But definitely not PVA. Just ask any old furniture restoration specialists who have seen their share of poor repair jobs done by non-professionals using epoxy. They were bad fixes because the amateurs did not clean up the PVA residue as much as possible.

If you coat two pieces of scrap with PVA and let them dry separately (say for a week), and then glue and clamp them together with epoxy glue for another week. Break them apart and you'll see glue isn't stronger than wood. The breakline is mostly between glue, not wood.

As for the Chair Doctor Glue, I've never used it though i saw good reviews of it. The last time I fixed a loose spindle type leg, I took it part, scraped the joint and relgued it with PVA.

Simon

[Timberwolf]

Has anyone ever used "Chair Doctor Glue" from Lee Valley??  A friend needs several rungs & spindles reglued on a Windsor Chair.

Are there other similar products out there??

THX....................George

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Yes..Chair Doctor is.Good stuff...Works as advertised...

[Phil Thien]

"Depending on what old glue you had in your chair to start with (or whether it was a starved joint from the get-go, the "starver", the better as there'd be more exposed wood). Epoxy sticks to old epoxy, polyurethane, and resorcinol pretty well.

But definitely not PVA. Just ask any old furniture restoration specialists who have seen their share of poor repair jobs done by non-professionals using epoxy. They were bad fixes because the amateurs did not clean up the PVA residue as much as possible.

If you coat two pieces of scrap with PVA and let them dry separately (say for a week), and then glue and clamp them together with epoxy glue for another week. Break them apart and you'll see glue isn't stronger than wood. The breakline is mostly between glue, not wood.

As for the Chair Doctor Glue, I've never used it though i saw good reviews of it. The last time I fixed a loose spindle type leg, I took it part, scraped the joint and relgued it with PVA.

Simon"

I can't disagree with a single thing you've said.

I suspect the reason it works for me is that the joints I've fixed were starved of glue from the get-go. There just isn't enough PVA there to cause a problem.

I'm about to do someone's dining room chair (nothing fancy) and can already see two joints barely have any glue.