Does it taste worse than gorilla biscuits?
A friend of mine many years ago sang the praises of Gorilla Glue, but I said I would rather stick with yellow glue for woodworking since it’s something I am very familiar with, and it has never let me down.
Am I missing out on woodworking’s greatest invention, or am I right to stick with yellow glue?
I love Gorilla Glue for what it is good for. As has been said, it’s not a general purpose glue, but it is pretty versatile. Like superglue, etc, it can be pretty messy, but appropriate handling solves this.
I have used it on a few automotive projects - specifically broken plastic panels, where the combination of a little gorilla glue and some fiberglass cloth can provide a very competent fix. It isn’t a great filler, but its tendency to expand as it dries can be exploited to fill small gaps. And it seems to take paint pretty well after cured, too.
For woodwork, on dampened surfaces, it’s unbeatable, and again the expanding characteristics of it can be very helpful when, for example, you are dealing with a dowel where the hole has been worn a bit large. I’ve also used it with a bit of steel wool to brace up a worn woodscrew hole.
It’s still around because it’s the right tool for the right job.
Golf tee dipped in your favorite adhesive, pounded in, clipped off and planed/chiseled smooth, and then re-drilled.
I have a bag of hardwood tees for this precise purpose. It works so well that I even used this technique when I hung a door incorrectly and had to move all of the holes half of a hole width, something almost impossible to do without the drill going back to the old hole.
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It’s still around because it’s freaking fantastic for the surfaces it lists (especially wood) when you, oh I dunno, actually read and follow the directions, like others have said.
I used it to glue the metal thing that holds the rear view mirror on the windshield of my grand daughter’s car. Did this about a year ago. Hasn’t fallen off yet.
Huh?
And I heard it doesn’t even contain real gorilla.
Thank you very much, Greenpeace! Dicks.
What they said. I usually apply masking tape around the joints to catch whatever blowout there is when it expands. Maybe a little trim work with a sharp wood chisel or razor knife and it’s ready for finish.
Alliteration always achieves amazing… results.
How about that glue that hardens with the UV pen that you see on TV? Is that on the level?
Yep!
My spouse bought some and has used it in several different projects. Works quite well, although you do not want to use it outside in direct sunlight on a sunny day. That daystar will set the adhesive up just fine.
…adhesion?
It’s not made of gorillas you fool! It’s for gluing broken gorillas back together, or gluing whole gorillas to each other. Obviously, it doesn’t work as well on other animals. Did you think Dog Chow was made out of dogs?!?!
I thought it was made of half a Chow Chow. 
It’s absurdly expensive ($24 for a tiny amount + pen at Ace hardware).
But, the technology has been used for decades - you probably have UV-cured cement in your mouth,
No, it is made of half of a Dog Dog 
Also put me down for being unimpressed with Gorilla glue.
I have glued a fair number of wooden things together with the stuff (following the directions thank you very much). They came apart fairly fast when exposed to the elements. Heck, even some of the stuff that just lived in the garage didn’t last.
Good ole high quality wood glue or an actual epoxy resin would have probably done better.
And on/in any optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) that you own.