Happy New Year everyone! We've had pretty high humidity in Raleigh recently (up to even 100% at points) and I noticed while cleaning up my garage that some drops of dried Old Brown glue that had had previously been hard were now soft and flexible again. I went and checked some cutoffs that were also sitting in the garage that had some hide glue squeeze out on them and that was similar. On some pieces I glued up and had indoor in climate control (~45% humidity) the glue squeeze out is still hard like plastic.
I brought the stuff that was in the garage inside, and put the stuff that was inside in the garage, and I'm going to watch how they change over the next couple days, for the sake of an empirical test.
But to get to the question: is this just the nature of liquid hide glues like Old Brown in very high humidity? I am seeing some people say online that traditional hot hide glue is not as susceptible to humidity. I also wonder how the Titebond liquid hide glue compares.
Kind of reconsidering whether I would use it as a structural glue for anything that goes in the garage at the moment, if it softens up that much in December of all times.
I brought the stuff that was in the garage inside, and put the stuff that was inside in the garage, and I'm going to watch how they change over the next couple days, for the sake of an empirical test.
But to get to the question: is this just the nature of liquid hide glues like Old Brown in very high humidity? I am seeing some people say online that traditional hot hide glue is not as susceptible to humidity. I also wonder how the Titebond liquid hide glue compares.
Kind of reconsidering whether I would use it as a structural glue for anything that goes in the garage at the moment, if it softens up that much in December of all times.