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Permalink Reply by Moe on March 31, 2008 at 10:50pm

It's been a few years since I used the specialty hot glues as a student at UCONN -- one of the great benefits of being in a place where one can just experiment with interesting stuff. I think it was the same 3M glues you speak of, and there were all kinds with different properties for specialty apps -- for metals, plastics, woods. I think we were able to use most of them in our standard hot melt guns, except for a couple that were shaped specifically to fit only a gun with the right temperature.

Permalink Reply by staceyrebecca on April 2, 2008 at 3:33pm

That was my director at the Great AZ Puppet Theater

I think we figured out that Aileen's was the best glue ever.

Permalink Reply by Sunshine on April 2, 2008 at 3:43pm

Aha! Mystery solved. Thank you.

Permalink Reply by staceyrebecca on April 2, 2008 at 4:28pm

Nancy Smith is her name, I think you can probably search puppet crit a little easier.

Permalink Reply by Sunshine on April 2, 2008 at 11:34pm

Got it! (Thank you, that made the difference...though has anyone noticed how user-fiendly the puptcrit archives are?)

Anyway, for anyone else who wanted to see the results of that glue experiment, they are right here.

Permalink Reply by dicapria on May 17, 2008 at 12:32pm

nope, but I know that I left one of my puppets in the car, probably for about a week and some of the seams had lifted apart, mostly the ones where alot of pressure was, not really the flat parts.
Also, I tried an experiment with holding a hair dryer to hot glue and it took about 10-30seconds for the hot glue to just peel apart from the foam and turn back into that plastic.

Permalink Reply by Michelle on May 19, 2008 at 1:10pm

I use a hair dryer in my studio when I want to repair a puppet or fix a mistake I've made when using hot glue. It is a wonderful tool to keep in your studio.

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