Jonathan Salisbury looks at the GlueMate150 and 450 which promise to offer a better way of storing and dispensing adhesives.

Buying small bottles of wood glue makes sense if you don’t use much, but I’ve never found that they work very well. The tip of the spout usually needs cutting to obtain the right size hole, but then the cap never seems to fit very well. Glue often dries up in the small nozzles, making squeezing more difficult and regular unblocking a necessity; for the quantity purchased, they’re also relatively expensive. 

Buying in bulk is cheaper, but it’s not feasible to pour small amounts of glue directly from a five litre container. Decanting PVA into a small pot and using a spreader is possible, but that’s not always convenient and there’s usually some left over to either clean up or allow to dry, which is also wasteful. A bottle is still best in most cases. 

The GlueMate 150, and its larger sibling the 450, are Milescraft’s version of a solution to the need for a refillable, squeezable glue bottle, which can be used to dispense the correct amount – no more, no less – exactly where it’s required.

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Milescraft GlueMate450 Glue Bottle
Milescraft GlueMate150 Glue Bottle