Have you ever tried filling glue from a large bottle like this,
into a tiny one like this, and spilled glue
all over your table? Or do your hands go numb squeezing it
forever out of a tiny nozzle? In this video, I'll share tips to avoid a
Every quiller has their own favorite type of glue,
and mine happens to be Aleene's Original Tacky Glue because I enjoy how thick
it is. I find that it dries really quickly and I can move on to the next
shape that I'm quilling. The bottle that I actually use
most often is actually this one and so I'll fill
this glue into this bottle because of the
fine tip that I get that I can place the exact little dot of glue that I use for
quilling. Okay so for most quillers if you want to
be refilling a smaller fine tip quilling
bottle like this, let me just show you what can happen.
First of all, before I do anything, I suggest that you get a sour cream
container like this, and that way if there's any spilling,
it's not going to go all over your work surface with a lot
of cleanup to deal with.
Now see that trapping of air? That's what's happening. This is an empty
bottle and yet there's an air bubble inside and it's filled up this
whole nozzle area. It almost needs to burp to release that glue to get it back
down. Let me show you some ways to get around
this. So what we're going to do is squeeze
this bottle ahead of time. So I've got it squeezed quite a bit here.
Watch what happens when we get that air bubble.
OK, so you see the glue is at the top, and what I'm going to do is just gently
release my fingers, and watch it sucking the glue back down.
So as the glue comes out I just release the pressure
on my left hand and the glue will not develop that air bubble;
and give yourself some leeway. So I wouldn't continue
filling non-stop. Give your right hand a break
and allow that glue to suction down into the bottle so you can actually know
exactly how much glue you have in here and how much you
need to fill all you need to do is just give it a
squeeze and watch as the glue comes to the
surface of the neck and how much i'm squeezing is telling me
how much room i have to fill that's how we can refill it really fast
no spilling of a drop no burping needing of any air bubbles
now if you want to refill from a large bottle to this medium bottle let me show
you how i go about doing that notice the
openings are exactly the same size so the natural tendency is to want to
bring them so close together to basically
thinking you don't want to spill any glue
but i actually found that a little bit of separation
actually goes a long way what happens is you notice the stream of glue is
thicker wider near the opening and as it streams down
it actually gets skinnier so i separated about two inches and
this way the stream is thinner as it reaches the bottle below so i can
actually squeeze out quite a lot of glue and it
doesn't go all over the place when i want to
stop the stream of glue tilt the upper bottle back and simply
brush the openings against each other if you have trouble holding a large glue
bottle steady in midair then try stacking some books up to the
right height and lean your bottle against it as you
pour to stop pouring i use the same technique
i brush the openings against each other as i lift the larger bottle upright
another way to refill your quilling glue bottle without spilling
is to obviously use a smaller nozzle like the one
on my medium sized bottle of course it'll take a little longer but i don't
mind because sometimes i'm too lazy to dig out my larger bottle
and i just want to top it up a bit did you know you can customize your
aleene's glue nozzle this is what a new nozzle looks like it
has a small protrusion at the tip and you can't squeeze any glue out just
yet i'm going to show you how to customize your nozzle from a tiny
pinhole up to 3 16th of an inch in diameter
first trim off the protrusion using an x-acto knife
next i need a thumbtack which has a nice flat surface for you to push against
and there we are a perfect pinhole this is what the glue looks like
coming out of that nozzle let me show you how it compares to my
fine tip quilling bottle this is why my fine tip bottle is
perfect for quilling because you can be specific and achieve
a tiny dot of glue it's much harder to do with the aleene's
bottle even with a pinhole one thing that you can do with this kind
of pinhole nozzle is that you can smear your glue stream
if you want because the nozzle tip is relatively large and flat
if you're wondering why i want to smear my glue watch my other video
quilling glue basics for five helpful tips about how to hide your quilling
glue i'll leave a link in the description
below this video we're going to do is just trim a little
bit of that nozzle off maybe about halfway down to that first
shoulder here
and you can see now the opening is a little bit wider
and now you can get a lot more glue out let me show you
what that stream looks like now as you can imagine
the more that you trim down this nozzle the wider
the circumference is going to get and i wouldn't suggest that you trim
past this line right here because that's how the nozzle tip is going to get
covered on there it needs that to lock onto that area
since this is my larger glue bottle i have trimmed it down
pretty close to that mark where i mentioned
let me show you a comparison and this is the circumference of the circles
this ends up being about 1 8 of an inch in diameter
now if we compare it to the one that has the nozzle at the bottom
this one let me just show you a comparison of those nozzles now
so this is what this looks like so you can see that this is a finer
nozzle that already comes pre-made for us
and this is how that compares there now let me just give you a quick glimpse
at how the tacky glue comes out of this nozzle
very nice and easy to control and then let me show you how it looks like coming
out of this 1 8 inch hole when you've used up all your
glue don't throw your bottle out that nozzle
is still useful remember when i told you not to cut past
that line because the cap needs to lock onto it
well now that you don't need to cap it let's cut it down some more
now at this point the nozzle is 3 16 of an inch wide in diameter now i'll
show you what it looks like to refill my quilling bottle using the larger
circumference first i'm going to squeeze out the air
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about new tutorials there we go some coolers enjoy using
elmer's glue and the best part about all these
nozzles is that they're actually quite standard in size that's right so
if you wanted to enjoy the elmer's nozzle on
your bottle of aleene's glue you can just swap that out
and then if you like using the nozzle that we created from the aleene's
and put that onto the elmer's to make it really quick to fill it up you
can swap that out and you can even use the
nozzle from the medium bottle and swap that out without making too
much of a mess seriously people i know i usually don't
make a mess but during the making of this video i
sure have been making some anyway here we go look at that we just
converted the elmer's glue into a shampoo bottle style
what if you don't have any aleene's products whatsoever you've always been a
fan of elmer's and you want to refill from a larger
bottle into a smaller one or a quilling bottle
and you're just tired of using such a small little nozzle to
achieve that well did you know that you can
actually take this part off all you need to do
is put a pair of tweezers on either side of the cap
and just gently pry it upwards look what we have here
can i confess something i actually bought this bottle just for this video
to do this little experiment because i've always been curious what's
underneath so you'll be learning along with me how
the glue comes out of this unusual nozzle here
so you can see it kind of gooshing out on either side of that
triangular bit and i'm just going to hold it above
and let that drizzle down that's going to allow me to fill my
bottle and i don't have to squeeze i don't have to
burp kind of cool
so i've done some fair bit of squeezing now and
i'm just going to release this bottle up and that's filled it up quite far quite
fast so i hope you enjoyed my little
experiment on refilling quickly and by the way it's really easy to put
this back on you just kind of push down and close
and now i get to do an experiment i've been curious about this whole time
this is the fine tip glue nozzle this is the aleene's tacky glue with the
nozzle on the bottom of the bottle
this is the elmer's glue all nozzle
let's see if i can get that finer and then this is the elmer's school glue
which i borrowed from my helpful nephews
hmm so that one came out rather fine i'm pretty sure
it's just a matter of the way i bead the glue here
interesting
so i think it's because this is a little thicker so i had to
squeeze a bit more but when you compare the glues
you can see that the elmer's school glue is a little bit
thinner it's a little bit less it's less opaque
so it's probably more water content in there
anyway i was just kind of curious how those nozzles compare
okay so i thought i was done filming after seeing how the elmer's came out of
this nozzle and i thought well wouldn't it be kind
of interesting to see how would this nozzle
work on the aleene's would it flow just as easily
because i'm assuming that the elmer's is runnier and so therefore it
flowed so well out of it and then as i was playing around with these nozzles i
realized oh actually the elmer's
opening here is actually two different sizes
so this smaller one here it doesn't fit on the larger
bottle at all because i was wondering why doesn't it fit on these salines
so just note of caution it doesn't it's not the same this even
though the cap portion is the same this thread here
is different so i actually have to take the
thread out of this elmer's and test it on here so if
you guys want to join me in my test just see how it runs with the tacky glue
now what brand of glue do you like to use do
you have a way of filling it without spilling
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yeah i would say it's pretty easy to control it
i think that triangular piece kind of directs the stream
quite readily so there we go now i know how it runs pretty good not bad
i hope you enjoyed my little experiment too
now if you don't want to go through the hassle of cutting a nozzle
i'm happy to tell you that you can buy a nozzle from anna of her paper paradise
she's made a 3d printed nozzle to make refilling super fast