Pectin Glue?

[bushman]

Has anyone ever tried to use pectin to make glue? Thanks.
Bushman

[JW_Halverson]

Maybe if you were in a jam.

Ok, that was a joke for all the home canners out there!  Their bellies are shaking like a bowl fulla jelly! 

I guess you could test it by taking two pieces of wood about an inch wide and glue an overlapping inch of the wood together.  Once it has dried, try breaking the bond.  If it breaks along the glue joint it's not so good.  If it breaks or tears apart the wood, you got yourself a pretty good glue! 

Post your results, it should be interesting.

[bushman]

  yes works good for jam.
Yes, I will have to give that a try. The only information I have been able to come up with it being used as a glue is for a surgical adhesive in a few operations and used by cigar collectors to repair the tobacco leave coverings on cigars.
Thanks JW_Halverson
Bushman

[JW_Halverson]

Cigars!  That's right, I knew I had heard of it being used for something.  Boy, talk about wanting to keep some moisture content when you are tillering...nothing like a badly dried out cigar.

[bushman]

I remember that in TBB 1 that it said in there how to go about making a glue test and what to use. Well I aint got no good hardwood (the only lumber I got is some spruce, pine, and western cedar) so it will have to wait till I get some. Unless someone else wants to give it a shot?
Bushman

[Bevan R.]

Try it on the western ceder. see if it pulls the wood or breaks on the joint.

[bushman]

Ok, will do Bevan R.
Bushman