Titebond buggered bottle

[Iain]

I have a few bottles of Titebond and the Ultimate waterproof decided to clog the feeder nozzle. "Tip can be removed for cleaning" it proudly states on the bottle, but no reference as to how you get the bugger off .
After much twisting and wrenching the top came away and I also succeeded in busting the stem from the base, bollocks.
This stuff is not cheap so after a philisophical beer ( ) I went on the rampage through the house and came across a Coles tomato sauce bottle, you know the ones that have a half twist to open the nozzle, poifect, transfer contents of Titebond to 350ml red bottle and remember not to bring it out on BBQ days.
I should add this took a couple of days overall, and I used a bit of glad wrap over the Titebond opening to keep it intact while I was looking for a solution.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Yup. I just gotta ask though... what took you so long to work it out?

Actually, I find those twist-top sauce bottles just as hard to clean out, especially if you continually forget to seal 'em after use. My preference is for the old fashioned cap-on-a-flap plastic bottles.

The wider hole when the cap's unscrewed is much easier to refill from the 4L container without ending up in a sticky situation, too!

[Iain]

I have never forgotten to reseal, just the residual glue tends to gum up in the nozzle.
And how do you clean out the original nozzles????

[Lignum]

Unscrew the cap and run it under the hot tap for a minute.

The titebond nozzles are fantastic, heaps better than sauce bottles

[Cliff Rogers]

Sauce squeeze bottles have their uses BUT....
If you have ever opened a 1litre can of Penetrol & not used it in a month or 2, it starts to go off.
I got the big Idea of transferring it to plastic sauce bottles & squeezing all the air out before I stored it.
The penetrol RIPPED the bottle open down the side & set hard.
That bloody stuff will do anything to get at air.

[craigb]

Stick the nozzle in the vice. Pull the bottle.

The dead glue will then just peal off. DAMHIK

[Honorary Bloke]

Plus, I've used a utility knife to scrape away the residual. But don't get too aggressive or you can cut the entire top off.

DAMHIKT!

I just bought something called a Gluebot made by Fastcap. It works a treat as it is designed to "suck" the glue back from the tip when you are finished laying down a line of adhesive.

[joe greiner]

Sounds inconvenient and smartarse, I know, but I've found it best after each day's use to remove the nozzle top and flush it out. Saves heaps of trouble later. Same reason to flush spray can nozzles with included propellant.

Joe

[scooter]

smartarse

Good to see you got the spelling right, Joe

[Grunt]

My name is Bond, Tite Bond.

[lesmeyer]

Just occurred to me. I wonder if those syrup bottles with the one way valve will work for the glue as well??
Les

[Cliff Rogers]

Bloody hell Les, how long has that penny been falling for.... 2 weeks?

[lesmeyer]

Just checked the pantry. Have one that is almost empty ...
Maybe I will have lots of syrup on toast in the morning .
Les

[lesmeyer]

In fact, this syrup plastic bottle being used for my titebond wood glue may be the BEST thing since sliced bread!!! Hope it will work well.
Hopefully yours
Les

[woodcutta]

I use a couple of these. At the end of gluing put the cap back on and throw whatever nozzle into a container of water until its needed again

Woodcutta