Clag Glue as flour paste replacement

[SingaporeSling]

Hi All,

I'm looking for a replacement for flour paste and was wondering has anyone ever used clag glue?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clag_(glue" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow)

Its supposed to be non toxic and if you grew up in Australia, you probable used it during your school years. Just wondering if it holds up to high heat and ethonal vapours.

I just want something I don't have to mix up each time I distill. Instead just use Clag in a sauce bottle to seal er up.

Your thoughts

Thanks

Sling

[Mr.Spooky]

what kinda rig ya runnin?
spooky

[Smokehouse Shiner]

I just want something I don't have to mix up each time I distill. Instead just use Clag in a sauce bottle to seal er up.

Heres an idea. Mix up a big batch of flour paste in a jar add a some salt to preserve it and then you dont have to mix it up each time. Is it really that big a deal to mix up a little flour paste when its time to run your still? I enjoy the process of setting up my rig, filling it up, lightin the fire, and even mixin up a batch of paste. I didnt follow your link and I don't know what clag glue is but an easy test is would you take out your bottle of clag glue and eat it? If you wouldn't then I wouldn't use it. Flour paste works REALLY well and I would have no problem eating it. In fact I have eaten it after its hardened up on the still many times. Doesn't taste great but the old man I learned stillin from swore by eating it to put somethin on your stomache before you started drinkig likker. OT: In Civil War times in America they called it "hard tack" and was the staple food for both Union and Conferate soldiers. Flour and water baked hard.

[maheel]

plenty of aussie kids have eaten Clag glue, i had a bit when i was little....

no sure i woudl use it but

[SingaporeSling]

hey Spooky, Its just a pot still made from copper tubing and a 15 litre stockpot. I use the flour paste to seal the lid to the stock pot base and around the copper tube joins.

I agree the flour paste works and works well, but I was sorta looking for convenience, something I just squirt from a sauce bottle around the lid and tube joins and away I go.

I think i'll go the flour paste premix with a salt preservative idea recommended by Smokehouse. I don't know about eating it myself, but the birds in my backyard like the hardened Flour paste I leave for them after I clean up the still.

Keep shining,

Sling

[Mr.Spooky]

yup,,, if yourdoing the stock pot route, the paste thing is the most practical way to go.. iv always found it kinda messy,,, but i could make a mess out of a rock. do what fits your needs!!!!!!!!
Keep Shinin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
spook

[rad14701]

Yet another novice who finds mixing flour and water to be too complicated and messy... What's gonna happen when you start mixing up wash recipes, putting down a grain mash, racking and clearing, making cuts during a distillation run, blending, aging, and drinking...??? You're better of giving up right now if flour paste is a stumbling block...

[SingaporeSling]

Sorry Rad, but I didn't say making flour paste was complicated or messy, I wanted the convenience of having the paste ready to go. That was all.

[rad14701]

Sorry Rad, but I didn't say making flour paste was complicated or messy, I wanted the convenience of having the paste ready to go. That was all.

While all of the Bostik Clag product line is non-toxic there is no guarantee that they will hold up for our purposes... Flour paste does...

[still crazy]

put some lemon juice or vinegar in your flour paste and it stays flexible

[blanikdog]

plenty of aussie kids have eaten Clag glue, i had a bit when i was little....

no sure i woudl use it but

Yairsss, I'm sure I've eaten my share too and no doubt many other items I wouldn't touch as an adult, Clag included. Raw snails give one a very green mouth job.

[SingaporeSling]

lol, well there goes my second question Blanikdog ...."Can I use Raw snails to seal my pot still?"... Anyway I've gone back to fresh made flour paste...I just add flour and water to a sealable glad bag, shake/squish bag around to mix, cut the tip of the bags corner off so I have a piping bag, use and then discard. Easy!

Thanks for your feedback all ( and your patience )

Sling

[Smokehouse Shiner]

Now you've got the idea. So did you eat some yet? You know you want to....