Originally Posted by
rlipsett
I have always gotten away with wood glue. its strong, it dries slow enough to position a piece correctly, it sands easily, it cleans up easily. it does not harden the wood nor make future repairs difficult by creating epoxy strata when trying to repair epoxied joints that can fracture easily. epoxy is good for the first application becuase it soaks into wood but the next time you use it it is trying to bind to the slick surface of epoxy and breaks easily. Wood glue does not have allergic reactions and so you can save your tolerances for ca for those occasion when it is truly needed.
QFT!
+1
In addition to that you don't have to worry about the LHS putting the CA right out in the light from the neon tubes. CA is UV sensitive both in the bottle and on hotstuff hinges. The other benefit is that most wood glues do not get as brittle as CA.
Every once in a while I find a need for the CA and get it out of the freezer the day before. Open or not, it gets kept under a can so MY UV sources don't damage it.
The one thing I have started doing is using a magic marker to date ALL of my glues. I tried to use some CA from the freezer last month that had to have been at least 8 years old. I think that was when that shop went out of business... Oh, it did not work.