On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:16:07 GMT, Bruce wrote:

Gorilla Glue is mainly for wood working. It requires you wet the surfaces
first before it sets up, you know.

It requires moisture. Outside Arizona or particularly dry weather,
atmospheric moisture is perfectly adequate. Boiling a kettle in the
workshop is enough.

And it swells some when it sets up to
fill any voids,

Gorilla Glue is a non-foaming variety of these PU (polyurethane) glues.
Most of the others foam much more than Gorilla.

which is why wood workers love it.

Most woodworkers _hate_ it. PU glues have any number of failings:
they're expensive, they're a problem on skin, they foam, they're
unusable outdoors as they have poor UV resistance. They're certainly not
useful for fine cabinetry.

I can't imagine why anyone would even think of using Gorilla Glue for
repairing a pen. If you do, then that's nature's way of telling you you
ought to get someone else to repair it.