E6000 glue, 2015 update

[Leo Nguyen]

Okay folks, since I have nothing in the fishing arena to share (well..that's not true), I'll share with you what I've found.

Now, Carl introduced me to this glue last year. Did plenty of test on it. However, a reformulation just go released for E6000 glue. This time around, rather than "Do not expose to high heat source", now, you can literally toss it into the washer and dryer.

Fix wife's various clothing types (yep..no duct tape). So far, it has been 4 months of washing and drying. No problem yet. No fray, crack, break, or even loss of glue after a full 5 days of curing (just in case). Fixed our snowboarding overall clothing. Same deal.

Now, for the heavy impact stuff. Got back into archery for hunting. Took a few carbon shaft arrows, and used various glue types. Each arrow has 3 polyvinyl fletch vanes (Blazer). This is not about archery's component test. Rather, it's about the glue. Primary glues:

Cheap $0.99 acrylic cyanoacrylate (gel)

Some Chinese knock-off acrylic cyanoacrylate (gel)

Some off-brand acrylic cyanoacrylate made in Mexico (gel)

Krazy glue

Super Glue

Loctite acrylic cyanoacrylate (gel)

Gorilla's acrylic cyanoacrylate (gel), 2014 reformulated

E6000, 2014 reformulated

Arrow's combo:

$0.99 glue - Chinese's glue - Mexico's glue

Krazy glue - Super Glue - Loctite glue

E600 glue - Gorilla's glue - Loctite glue

E600 glue - E600 glue - E600 glue

Gorilla's glue - Gorilla's glue - Gorilla's glue

Loctite glue - Loctite glue - Loctite glue

* Yep..not having enough confident in the cheapo glues. Not bothering to fletch too many arrows with the cheapo glues.

All arrows were fletched the same day, with proper front and back of vane sealing. Total cure time was 3 days. Fletched with Bitzenburger Dial-o-Fletch, extreme right helical (adding as much spin as possible for centrifugal test during mid flight)

Impact test, at 30-ft, for maximum impact force:

Arrows were allowed to pass through a 11 layers modified target block (2 layers of carpet, 4 layers of thick cardboard, 4 layers of linoleum, and 1/4-in chicken fencing) to represent all the possible rough element of hunting. The chicken fencing is the roughest part of the test, since the vane (also being under test) will be ripped, stripped, and stress-test. Vanes' results during test

1st firing test:

Cheap $0.99 acrylic cyanoacrylate (gel): peeled off at 1st layer.

Some Chinese knock-off acrylic cyanoacrylate (gel): peeled off at 1st layer

Some off-brand acrylic cyanoacrylate made in Mexico (gel): : peeled off at 1st layer

4th firing test:

Krazy Glue: peeled right off at 1st layer.

Super Glue: peel right off at 2nd layer.

16th firing test:

Gorilla's acrylic cyanoacrylate (gel): Pretty darn strong. Still on.

Loctite acrylic cyanoacrylate (gel): Finally came off at the chicken wire fencing.

E600: Pretty darn strong. Still on.

40th and final firing test (my bow arm gotten pretty spent, shaking like a leaf):

Arrows broke after the Muzzy 3X broadheads pierced the testing block, going through 3 layers of hay bails, and 1/2 wood fencing. Result, vanes still in tack, and fully glued onto the broken shafts.

Lesson learned:

Reformulated Gorilla gel glue and E6000 will be my only glue in the household. Giving the rest of my useless glues away.

[Leo Nguyen]

PUahahahahaha!! I got a 16, 8 and 6. Yet, over half of my head already covered with white.

[dick tabbert]

Shows and means your distinguished.

[Leo Nguyen]

Or just sign of insanity kicking in Dick.

[dick tabbert]

We can live with the gray. Whatever it is don't loose that genius of a mind but if you do we'll still love you.

[Leo Nguyen]

LOL!!

[Andy is OptiMystic]

I shared the photo and some others with my (now) teenager and the next thing I know we are volunteering to go down there in late March to work one of the activities. Imagine my disappointment (you will have to, because it doesn't exist). Actually pretty good pond fishing there as well as specks, drum and flounder off the pier on the "river" (pretty much sound at that point); they work you pretty good (I did this with my oldest) but you get some daylight hours off.

[jim cosgrove]

i have a pse recurve i shoot in the yard leo.also an old wood laminate one.i just shoot for fun but might have to put some broadheads on for the coyotes over running the area lately.my son only got 1 deer this year.he gets 3 or more most years

[Leo Nguyen]

Oh wow. We've been dying for some deer meat. My wife wants to enjoy natural meats, rather than the farmland packed, overly hormone-loaded meats. You truly have a great place there.

[Lord of the Fly , Rods]

 Too Bad you live so far off Leo,  we took 8 deer off my place this year, and if you process it right which I do , it tastes just like steak, I had one ground up into burger once and when we ran out and had to buy burger at the store it tasted nasty after eating all that clean flavored deer  burger. I just cooked 2 shoulders this weekend and turned them into BBQ, yum yum , but the best is when we fry up the backstraps and place them into homemade cat head biscuits then drag them through cream gravy, it just dont get better than that. LOFR 

[Leo Nguyen]

*SIGH* You're making me drool right now. I know how to prep game meats..just need the meats. LOL Love to wrap the in bacon and smoke it.

[jim cosgrove]

my son probably eats game or fish 5 nights a week.there is no part of the deer than cant be made into something tasty.from roasts steaks burgers chili and the best jerky.he has been making some really good jerky out of canada goose

[jim cosgrove]

i really dont hunt anymore and only killed a deer with my truck years ago leo .when i learned to hunt just weren't many deer around.seems they are getting over hunted again.once the wild pheasants left i pretty much quit.just had some good venison stew my son made tho.one problem with illinois is we dont have a lot of public land and the farmers plowed under all the bird habitat to increase corn yields.