A carved elk has been in my wife’s family for decades. Recently a cleaning lady knocked it over and one of the antler’s is broken in two pieces. I seek recommendations on a fast acting glue to put it back together. An antler is not exactly the kind of geometry the enables clamping while glue drys.
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5 minute epoxy.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~ Denis Diderot
Bill, this is an ideal project to use cyanoacrylate on. There are many formula of it, but if you have a good hobby store like for model airplanes, etc, they should sell it along with an activator.
If the parts fit back together good, I would use the thin. You can position it together dry, while wearing rubber gloves, and maybe even have a thin plastic sheet between them and the horn, when you put a drop on the crack. Capillary will pull it into the crack. Then a quick squirt of activator ill kick the glue in a couple of seconds.
Be ready to turn it loose quickly and dance around with your fingers in your mouth if you use too much glue. If there is as little as a drop pooled when the activator hits, it will smoke from the catalytic heat. Really don't put it in your mouth, since there may be some around which didn't kick, which may glue your finger to your lip, which would get burned too. ha
Actually it might be a good idea to hold the parts together with tweezers or needle-nose pliers.
CA glue ie answer.
I would suggest two people for the repair: one to hold the parts together, while the other person applies the glue and the accelerator.
Frosty
"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
Bill,
I would use hot hide glue; it bonds quickly, but can easily be repositioned if needed. Also any excess glue is easily cleaned up.
Rob Millard
http://www.americanfederalperiod.com
Fastcap makes an instant glue that is super strong. I use it for setting trim pieces before nailing. It holds end grain miters, if you can believe that.
I would go with epoxy or hide glue .I find that C.A glue with accelerator shows as a white deposit.Test some first
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