Bostik Glu Dots Removable Clear Sticky Dots

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As our Removable Glu Dots are a temporary adhesive, you can easily remove our removable glue dots by carefully and very slowly peeling away from the surface - a rolling motion with the side of your finger is most effective. We also offer a free sample service so you can test our removable labels to see which adhesive best suits your application. This means that they need to stay in place until they are no longer needed or become out of date - at which point it must be possible to remove a label without damaging the previously labelled item in the process.

The two most important characteristics of any adhesive are its ability to withstand loading and the strength of its bond to the surface to which it is applied. Glued joints fail when either the molecular bonds within the adhesive or the bonds between adhesive and adherend fail.

High creep, low resistance to temperature or solvents, all characteristics detrimental in a structural adhesive, are desirable when the adhesive is used as a positioning aid during product assembly. Our removable glue dots are easy-to-use, safe for children and odourless, making them ideal for home, office and school use. I was worried the glue dots wouldn’t be able to take the weight of the paper as there is no weight limit on the packaging.

Water-borne adhesives offer several open times from short to indefinite and can be removed without chemical solvents. Examples of temporary adhesives include wood glues, elastomers, silicone sealants and pressure sensitive tapes or films. They're perfect for arts and crafts projects such as scrapbooking, sticking up posters to walls, card making, collages and model making at home, the office or in schools.

Use them to transform your gift wrapping, poster displays and to instantly fix items in craft projects. Please note that our removable labels are not repositionable or reusable; they can only be peeled off once and cannot be reapplied. Their initial strength is moderate and drying times longer compared to solvent-based adhesives, but they have wide application temperature ranges. Although the largest use of temporary adhesives is in industrial applications, removable adhesives are also commonly found in consumer or commercial labels applied to paper, cloth or non-porous surfaces.

The "removability" of a label depends on the type/amount of adhesive used, temperature, surface type, pressure applied during application, and duration of application. We have been online, supplying labels and labelling advice directly to individuals, companies, and organisations of all kinds, since 2007.

Non-structural adhesives are most useful where a temporary bond of low to medium strength is required. The most common issue with permanent adhesives is that they tend to either damage surfaces when removed or split, leaving behind adhesive residue. The latter adhesives exhibit low shear strength, high creep and are sensitive to adverse environmental conditions such as high temperature, solar radiation and solvents.