More Gorilla Glue... you betcha!

A guy came into the showroom today with a part that dropped out of this drawer slide.
I recognized it as a 'euroscrew' which is essential in European style cabinet construction.
He lost one of two so I went into the warehouse where we keep a drawer of miscellaneous hinge and cabinet parts and found 2 just like the one he came in with.
He wanted to drill a hole in a new location but had no tools to do so. We talked about how it screws into a metric hole (5 millimeter if I recall) in wood and since his fell out, my suggestion was to use a small amount of 5-minute epoxy, press fit it and wait for the glue to harden.

He asked if he should use Gorilla Glue and without hesitation I said "Yes, that will work, but don't get any on your hair!"
We both laughed and wanted to pay me for the part. It was no charge, but I told him should he need a kitchen renovation he should come back and we will talk business.
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We're not foreign.

Neither are we alien.

I recommend people start getting over themselves with this ownership and not belonging malarkey.
Those who ignore their Biology, are condemned ever to play a part in it. Especially those professing to have a knowledge base in such.
The order of Kin and Foreign, is an integral part of the great Mandela that we call genetics/life. Each plays it's part, but one thing is sure, foreign is as necessary as kin, over the long haul. Most of the foreign gets trashed, in a giant ecology of survival. A few rarely not so. But who would deny the importance of those who are a little---or a lot---different, and thus in one sense, can truly be labeled as foreign?
Celebrate/Extirpate diversity? Impossible, and the craft of fools.The right and the left can each lay valid claim to being fer or agin the idea.
C'mon. Leave the Cumbayah nonsense in the virtue signaling echo chambers. Where it soothes the troubled soul best. But does little more.
Chat I can tell you are good at your work and I hope you have a good work family, do you?
Sorry Chat, I disagree, I have furniture over 100 years old and still very functional. You would be lucky to get 10 years from Ikea or similar.
Guess we should agree to disagree.cheers
Particleboard and composites weren't available 100 years ago. No comparison possible. All cabinets coming from Europe are melamine or veneer coated particleboard. Only the American market is using plywood construction.
Some Asian countries still use real wood for kitchen units, all my kitchen cupboards and units in the Philippines are made from local wood, a good job too as my kitchen was flooded last year by a typhoon and I was happy to hear that none of the doors, drawers or supporting units had suffered any damage. If plywood or MDF had been used they would have swollen up and required all replacing.
Nothing beats real wood IMO, as long as new trees are planted as the old are cut down it is sustainable and renewable for ever.

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This is very similar to my Kitchen, from the same suppier.
There are a few companies in my area that sell Chinese made cabinets that come knock down in cardboard boxes. They go to the job site and assemble them for half the price that I could get normal cabinets. These are made with all the options of plywood Construction European styling quality made wood drawers but they only come in one color... white
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