{"id":7643,"date":"2005-09-06T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/hot-melt-glue-sticks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:39","slug":"hot-melt-glue-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/hot-melt-glue-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Melt Glue Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that, at least at Michael&#8217;s, hot melt glue sticks are no cheaper whether you buy the large or small ones, short or long. The only way to save is to buy a larger quantity. And as the larger guns work in a 40w gun (as opposed to a 10w), it&#8217;s likely that the larger sticks will melt faster.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I did stand in Michael&#8217;s with a calculator (in my phone) and calculate the volume of each type of glue stick, then the total volume per bag, in order to come to this conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that, at least at Michael&#8217;s, hot melt glue sticks are no cheaper whether you buy the large or small ones, short or long. The only way to save is to buy a larger quantity. And as the larger guns work in a 40w gun (as opposed to a 10w), it&#8217;s likely that the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13984,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643\/revisions\/13984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}