CA maybe??????

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Don't know if it is the same as Chair-Loc, which I've used for years,
but if so, it isn't CA. It's triethanolamine, styrene, casein and a bunch
of other stuff.. it swells the wood and then cures in the swelled state.
It isn't a glue, per se
 
It is a CA glue, which is produced by BriWax. BriWax is out of England and has been around for a long time. In the furniture restoration business CA glues have been a great money maker when it comes to repairing chairs. The old traditional way was to knock the chair apart and re-glue the rungs and clamp with a band clamp. With the thin CA you could now re-glue a chair without knocking it apart or clamping it. There are times when the CA becomes an issue and a means of injecting it into the joint was needed so the CA could not mess up the finish on the chair leg at the rung joint. BriWax put this package together and included a syringe. I am surprised by the needle syringe as it has always been an issue for restoration shops to get metal needle syringes. I have not tried the product, although we do carry BriWax. I did confirm it was a CA glue, but I am still curious as to the claim of swelling the joints. The Midwest BriWax distributor has no decided yet if they will even carry the product. Personally it is way overpriced and you are paying for the name and syringe.
 
Monty:
I'll bet what has changed is not the glue, but instead the loosened restrictions on selling metal needles without a prescription. Until last year, to get a metal syringe, you had to have a prescription, know a diabetic or doctor.

The rules on these have changed. It seemed that old laws did nothing, EXCEPT encourage IV drug abusers to share needles.

I would be willing to bet this is "Hot Stuff", which is mostly thin CA.
 
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