I'm using the melt and use type of tip top glue and this stuff is tough to use. It seems to cool very fast. I also had a very hard time getting any into the opening of the tip top. Here's what I ended up doing, tell me if I messed up (but it did hold). I rolled a rice grain size piece of glue and pushed it into the tip top opening, then coated the blank tip with glue. I then heated them both and pushed them together. Here's teh funny thing, I had to hold the tip top onto the blank for about 15 seconds because as I pushed it all the way on, if I let go too quick, it would kinda slide off, like there was some kind ogf pressure inside the tip top. Am I an idiot, or is this some kind of heat, expansion, physics thing.

Sincerely, your slightly neurotic, but well meaning, neighborhood rod building newbie, and fly fishing nutcase.

Harebear