Thanks for your interest in Gorilla products and for sharing your video with us! We've done a lot of tests on this subject and here's what we have found: Adding vinegar to Gorilla Glue to hasten the reaction has the same effect as adding plain water. Vinegar is mostly water and that’s why you are seeing these results. The reaction of the vinegar with baking soda generates water, but this is much less significant than the water content in the vinegar itself...

Lotta toxic comments(sad people)... thanks for going through this process. Interesting to see the differences. Everything has its place and this helped me as I needed to join a a few pipes for something I was building and the foaming action of this glue bonded and filled in the gap between the two different pipe diameters.

But what about it's material strength after adding the vinegar and Baking Soda? A brick with added curing speed-up might not hold up to the test of a 20 story building! Curing time adds strength! That's why when they put concrete table tops in a pool of water it hardens better! Shortcuts aren't always better!

While baking soda and vinegar do react to produce water, household vinegar itself is 95% water. Its unlikely you are making enough water from the reaction to make a difference in the overall amount of water.

Patience is a virtue.

Yes, if you use too much water or vinegar/baking soda, the glue will foam up too much and become weaker. My experiment indicates that for every 10 drops of glue, 1 drop of water or V/BS gives the strongest joint, but the glue with more baking soda, so that it turns into a toothpaste consistency was quite strong. When gluing material like wood, just wetting the surfaces should give you a quick set. The most common mistake is not using any moisture at all,

you can't test rigidity and adhesive strength by poking your finger into it.

Thanks for taking the time to do this. Very helpful and informative! Bet you had fun doing it too :-)

Stella example of testing at home...

Thank you for doing the research, I'm a terrain builder for models and have been looking into using GG for structured ground.

This helped me when i made my kokichi ouma carboard cutout. Thank you very much。

Thanks for the video , very informative. I'm a knife maker and my patience sometimes runs thin .

So the lession is:

very cool and useful experiment

This worked really well, dry within 1 hours - thanks :)

This is interesting. I think I will apply it to sculpture and sculpture Maquette making.

you can just add water, but its difficult to actually mix the water into the glue. Also, it makes the resulting bubbles vary too much in size. Adding both vinegar and baking soda really helped keep the bubbles even in size, making a better joint for gluing.

Good work! A few questions: Will I have time to clamp up the project using your technique? I'm concerned that the BB/V/BS mix will foam aggressively and make it difficult to get a tight joint. Not to mention that as it starts foaming, I may have GG goo all over the place. Is this a concern? Also, does this technique materially affect the strength of the bond?

Wouldn't the glue joint be weakened by the additional gas bubbles in the mixture? Anywhere there's gas, there isn't glue.

Good job man, you nailed it!👍