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   calvin | May 13, 2005 03:45pm | #1

   Contact adhesive is the only way I know of for countertops, trowel grade construction adhesive for some wall applications.  Wouldn't think yellow glue would work, interesting if it does.

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   paul42 | May 13, 2005 04:04pm | #2

   I used it a couple  of times.  I had some cabinet shelves that I wanted laminate on and contact cement would have been difficult. 

   Thin the glue with some water and add some food coloring so you can see where you have brushed it on.  Apply to both surfaces with a foam brush and let dry.  Place the laminate in place and iron it on. 

   The laminate has been there for almost 20 years now and no sign of coming up.

    

    

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   parrothead | May 13, 2005 06:50pm | #3

   When laminate is laid up at a factory, that is what they basicly use, a pva glue. But it is done under high pressure and is activated/cooked with RF (radio freq) to make it cure faster. For home use I have only used contact.

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   migraine | May 13, 2005 07:16pm | #4

   I use this method all the time.  The catch is that I use a vacuum press for applying the pressure to the surface.  Works like a charm.

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   BamaTom | May 13, 2005 08:30pm | #5

   I worked as a technical person for a furniture company for about ten years where we did this, more or less, on a production basis.  We actually used white pva glue, not yellow, out of a 55 gallon drum.  It went into a glue spreader which applied an even coat of the glue to both faces of a 4' x 8'  3/4-inch thick furniture grade plywood panel at one time.  The panel was then taken off the spreader, being held by fingetips along its edges by four workers, and laid on top of a piece of HPL laying back-side up on the stack of previously run panels.  Two pieces of HPL were then placed on top of the panel, one face side up and one (the upper one) face side down, ready for the next panel of plywood to be set on it.  When the stack was complete (about 40 panels at a time, as I recall), the whole stack was placed into a cold press.  The cold press had a large steel plate platen that applied pressure to the whole stack of glued panels via air pressure in a number of rubber bladders.  The material only stayed in the cold press long enough for the crew to build the next stack of panels, then it was moved out of the press with a forklift, and the next batch rolled into the press.  Overall, it worked pretty well.  I don't know it this would apply to your situation, but just thought I would let you know that using pva glue to laminate HPL to a substrate is not unusual, just not done much on a small scale as in residential work.

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   jimblodgett | May 13, 2005 10:51pm | #6

   Even if you COULD fasten plam with white or yellow glue, you wouldn't get the buzz, would you? 

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   calvin | May 14, 2005 02:04am | #7

   no buzz, but here's one more (of many) things I didn't know. 

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   Sphere | May 14, 2005 03:28am | #8

   snork...BTW..it works fine.  Ever see them self edge tops corners get a peel off?  it was always CC that failed, I used LACQUER to glue one once..20 yrs and still holding.

   Yeller glue is getting to be a staple ( no pun) for all sorts of things...great wash coat before final finishing....dilute of coarse. 

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