Cleaning Up Squeeze Out

All right, perfect. Now, Bob is gonna blow my mind. So I literally for decades, I have told people don't wipe glue with a wet rag because all that does is smear it all over the surface. So, Bob and I were just chatting because we just had another glue up and we were talking about clean up, cleaning up the squeeze out and he said, oh yeah, you should wipe it with a wet rag push. So um like how fast do we need to act or I I know um we wanna show them how to clean this up. So, yeah, so as soon as with a wet rag, so the soon as you wanna do is as soon as you get the squeeze out instantly from clamping up, as soon as you see the squeeze out get going. Yeah, basically wet. You want a lot of water to just to just wipe it up and maybe I should go with the green. That might be easier. So, so just my surfaces are slightly uneven, that's not helping you. So, so basically just take as much water as you can to, to get all you have got that dripping wet, dripping wet is what you want. You want to get all of that glue up and out so that there's no glue there. And if this was a big, I don't know if I had multiple seams, if this was a big surface, you would be refreshing that rag in the water over and over. What you, what you wanna do is you wanna get that glue so, so dispersed that there's not enough glue to plug all of the pores of the wood, right? And, and so you, you just get it like that and, and just leave it. What that'll do is it'll raise the green. And what we found was in our research, you know, our recommendation is wait the 10 to 20 minutes for the glue to putty up and then scrape it. Um historically, that's what, that's what historically we've said. Um But we saw on a video on the web, somebody using a lot of water like this and, and again, we, you know, but so because we're curious, we wanted to see how bad that was. Uh And how long it would take to sand that off. Uh What we actually found was this was the best method in terms of sanding afterwards. So in, in that particular case, we took a random orbit, San sander with a, a £5 weight on the surface and we did one minute intervals and then tested it with um mineral spirits to see if we could see where it still needed to be sanded. What we found was this actually, um Once this dries again, you got a lot of water on the surface, you wanna make, make sure that that dries enough. Um But it really only took like 50 seconds of sandy for us to get all of that. So the test they did was between a white surface and uh what I've done for years, let it get putty like and then pop it off putty like. And in the end, the random orbit sander on the scraped surface to explain it to clean. Yeah, so about 20 seconds more of sanding. So, so our ours is, yeah, I mean, whichever method works best. We did test where we let the glue dry and then scraped it off and um yeah, that it would take chunks of wood out and your, your sanding is more in the 5 to 10 minute range with 80 grit trying to get it back down to a flat surface. So we don't recommend waiting for it all to dry. That glue is very tough to get off of wood once it dries. But when it's putti or if you've got, so how do you say the time or the inclination to try something that maybe you wouldn't have tried before? This actually works pretty good too. And now and bathe in the surface with a boat load of water like this is not adversely affecting the glue, it's not getting in there and affecting strength of joint at all. No. So, so the wood itself is actually absorbing water from the glue and, and so that wood along the glue line is already absorbing water. Uh wood will get to about 30% before it's fully saturated anyway. And that isn't gonna take any more water anyway. And I think we probably can't say enough. The key to this is dilution, dilution, dilution, dilution. Like this can't be a damp rag because then you're in the smearing stage. It's gotta be wet, wet, wet and, and frequently refreshed it out. All right. Well, myth busted by the expert Bob from T bo like um II, I don't know what to say. My, my back to you is if you don't give it a try, they test it on a couple of sky pieces of wood before you go with. Uh don't, don't do your uh bird's eye walnut dining room table first necessarily first. OK. All right. I'm gonna try it because I like the way I like how easy this is to do. So. Next edge to edge glue up. I got, I'm going.