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Apply CA Glue and Accelerator for Seamless Joints

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CROWN MOLDING TIPS Home improvement tips installing crown and interior trim woodworking

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What happens here

Richard demonstrates how to apply the CA glue and activator to the crown molding pieces. He applies a small, controlled bead of CA glue down the middle of one mitered edge of a crown molding piece. This minimizes squeeze-out. Immediately after applying the glue, he sprays the activator onto the corresponding mitered edge of the mating piece. He then quickly presses the two pieces together, holding them firmly for about 8 seconds until the glue sets, creating an instant and strong bond. This process is repeated to assemble an entire outside corner return section of crown molding.

Goal: Create strong, instantly cured, seamless crown molding joints.

Tools and materials

  • Crown Molding Pieces — Forming the mitered joints for installation
  • Cyanoacrylate — Bonding crown molding pieces together at joints

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It's about 8 seconds, they say. And it usually doesn't even take that long. So, I'll go ahead and glue this one on here, and then we'll be ready to install this piece of crown. It's important to move quick cuz you don't have much time. And we are good to go with that. And just like that. I mean, I can actually just hold this out and it's not going to fall on me. So, this works awesome. We use this stuff all the time. If you've ever watched my channel, DFW Crown, you know I use this stuff all the time. So, I will go ahead and install this piece and show you that right now. So, we went ahead and tacked up that corner over there. And we did that off camera just so we could get that corner right. So, what we'll do here now is just we'll push this up into place like that. And all we got to do now is just install it. We use a 18 gauge brad nail and we shoot in a V pattern.

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