Barry,
Funny you should be talking about glue but I went to get a tin of contact adhesive recently for sticking some felt to the base of a wooden tool chest.
It took me ages to find the stuff I always used for this purpose which was Evo-Stick. I remember it as a petrolium based glue that was brilliant if you let it dry properly before putting the two halves together. I was amazed to get my tin home and find that it contained a substace far more like the old Copydex. My wife reckoned that the glue sniffers of the world may have had a hand in this change!!
As for PVA, when I was at school I remember a glue that was a buff powder that you mixed up with water to a runny consistency. When it set it was as hard as a resin. That was called Caskamite.
All the other animal based glues in the woodwork shop had to be heated and created a smell that I remember today. They did have a bit more romance about them than the 'new fangled' PVA glues that were imerging at the time and we tended to think of the PVA glues as the easy way out and not doing the job properly!!
Nowadays I mix it with powder paint and make deck caulking, amongst many dozens of other uses. |