I think Gorilla Glue is primarily a woodworking adhesive. It\'s a polyurethane based glue and wholly unsuited for this kind of work. Plus it needs a little moisture as a catalyst which it normally gets from the wood. Lastly, it expands into a big hard foamy mess.
This happened to a tripod I had and I just used a 5 minute epoxy from Loctite, although any good epoxy will do. Clean the sections of old glue as best you can with a screwdriver, butter knife, whatever, apply your mix to the metal ferrule and give the tube a quarter turn just to distribute the adhesive as evenly as possible. IMPORTANT: make sure you remove the lower leg sections from the upper tube before you insert the upper tube into the ferrule. Because the lower tubes nest inside the upper one, you could accidentally glue all the sections together inside the upper tube! Once you\'ve inserted the tube turn the tripod upside down and let the glue set and cure. If you\'re using a fast setting glue this won\'t take long, but epoxy reaches its maximum strength after a day or so.
Reassemble the lower sections into the upper one and you\'re good to go. My tripod is now on it\'s second year with the fix I did to it and the glue joint is as strong as the day I glued it.
Don
Mar 25, 2010 at 05:11 PM
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