I cut a square hole into a couple of stacked 3/4 inch squares of plywood. You could use a block of nice wood instead. Now my square bottle of head cement cannot tip over plus you can unscrew and screw the lid on and off easily with one hand. Your glue is always right in front of you where you need it. Its obvious that I am no carpenter. But you can see from the picture what I mean.
Gnu Bee
Ps Before i found the square bottle I had a round one. Its even easier , you get the proper sized drill bit , drill it to the same size as your bottle . as you start the bottle into the hole place one of those thin toothpicks along one side of it to jam it snugly in the hole for one handed operation of the cap.
I also have made many of the same holders and passed them out at club meetings — you can also buy the small round bottles with the needle stopper. they never leak even laying on their side.BILL
I get some of the tacky putty used to mount posters w/o making holes in you wall. I place a nickle sized blob on the bottom of my jar of head cement and it sticks to the surface of my tying bench.
The putty rolled into a point also works well for picking up small beads…
Brilliant minds think alike; I’ve been doing exactly the same thing bead-wise since I started using beads years ago! BTW, have you ever tried Mortile caulk for beads, it works better IMHO.
And as far as the head cement goes, I also use poster putty and stuck mine in the bottom half of a small plastic box minus the lid. I can stick two types of head cement in the same 3" X 2" box and move it around if desired without knocking it over.
First please forgive me for high jacking this thread, but, someone mentioned the small round bottles with the small metal tube with a needle in it and I love those but quit using them because, on mine, they would never stop flowing head cement even when you set the bottle down. It was like a siphoning action started and it would not shut off. If someone knows how to stop this from happening, I would love to know how because, like I said, I really like using those.
Warren, what I do is keep pressure on the bottle when I turn it back upright (needle pointed up). Then let go of the bottle and the cement gets pulled back into the bottom.
KOA, I know what you mean. sometimes i forget to put the lid on while i am tying another and i reach for a material and knock the cement jar off my bench. I can’t find anything to get it out.
Thats why you use the small bottle with the needle top–you can lay it on the carpet open and none will leak out. I also use Fly- Tite tying cement with a alcohol base. It stops flowing when I set it down. Diluted with denatured alcohol.
Thank you both for responding and I will try both suggestions because I like the needle for applying just a small amount of head cement in a precise area.
While spot testing is STRONGLY advised; try lacquer thinner for regular head cement.
I also STRONGLY advise the purchase of the largest plastic chair mat you can find. The largest size sometimes will fit under the tying desk too. The chair will roll better and your carpet & significant other will love you for it.
cork with a stiff wire as an applicator…different diameter wire gives different size droplets…[I got my wire at the hobby store]…you can adjust the position of the wire depending on the level of the cement…and the droplet forms better if the wire is blunt.
I use salt and pepper glass shakers from the $1 store…have to look hard for the small ones…
Right now I am using one of the square glass head cement bottles with SH in it plus for a lid I am using the plastic screw on lid from a squeeze ketchup bottle with the snap open/snap close top. It has a hole about 1/4" in size and I just dip my bodkin in the cement through that hole. I can open and close it with one hand.
Been there done that Warren…in fact went so far as to put a small cork/wire in the ketchup lid hole thinking less evaporation…I had a tendency to leave the little hole open…then switched to what I mentioned…who knows what’s next :roll: :roll:
This looks like a great idea but I fear it may have serious repercussions. Without a major head cement spill ever few weeks, I wouldn’t be Eight Thumbs. I’d have to pick another name like Tie Pro or something else self aggrandizing. I would cease to exist as an area of accident and mayham. 8T
Forgot the glue on the carpet–I hate to write this…If you have a piece of the same carpet a carpet installer has a punch. You punch out the part with glue,punch a new piece. Glue in the new. Of course the color might not match.
