Hot melt glue question

[adirondack46r]

Just playing with gluing tips on wooden shafts for the first time. Is the hot melt glue used in glue guns (typically for crafts, etc.) fine for gluing points on wooden shafts? Or is there something special you guys use?

By the way, you should see the arrows that Jlnft made for me. They are sweet.

Thanks

[broketooth]

i now use feral lite hot melt glue it works best with a small propane torch. best thing about it is if you dont lose or break arrows alot you can swap out the feild points for glue on broad heads in 2 minutes and they are ready.no waiting 24 hrs for the glue to dry

[Tree man]

There are different grades of Hotmelt for glue guns-some of them do a fair job of holding points on arrow shafts. After messing with lots of them I have come back to Bohning Ferrule-tite. It really is a better hot melt formula for what we want to accomplish, If you just "gotta" do hardware store glue then  buy the High-temp stuff that is rated for wood to metal-it usually is yellow in color.

[Pat B]

Be sure to degrease the inside of the points. I also like to rough up the inside with sand paper before degreasing.
 I also prefer the ferr-l-lite amber colored hot melt glue.

[champ38]

Gorilla glue from Walmart(and most other dept stores)...never lost a head, dont have to heat it, just rub it on the end of your arrow and stick the BH on, its heat reversible too. Tried the hot melts, kept loosing heads.

[adirondack46r]

Gorilla glue, huh? Maybe I'll give that a try.

[Brian Krebs]

ferr-l-tite I think is best. As noted above; there can be oil in the broadhead; so get that out; just make sure that you do not end up with a layer of soot - that defeats the glue as much as anything.

And I have found that using a butane torch makes the glue hotter and that seems to make it work better.

I would not trust the glue from a glue gun.

[SCATTERSHOT]

I have had poor results with the craft type hot melt glue. It doesn't stick very well. There are hot melt glues available for industrial applications that you can get at Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. That work, but you have to get the heavy duty stuff.

Gorilla Glue may work, but it's brittle, I don't know if that would cause a problem or not.

[SCATTERSHOT]

Should add, too, that whatever glue you use you need to get the point pretty hot to get rid of the oil that's in it, or use acetone or something like it.