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What's better: hot glue from a glue gun, or white glue from a bottle?

I'm trying to glue posterboard to posterboard, and I am curious as to the following things: 1. Which will hold better in the long run? 2. Which will be less visible? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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1. For a poster board I would not use either of those adhesives. Never use hot glue gun on paper. White glue or any liquid glue is too wet. If you can use two way tape. A Zig two way glue marker would be good too.Check out the scrapbook section of a craft store for adhesive for paper
2. White glues** are good for paper products, and glue guns will work too. (you can always sand or scratch the surfaces to be glued for slightly better contact with the glues if the surface is very smooth or slick) White glues will dry clear and hot glue will dry clear if it's very thin--otherwise a bit translucent. White glue will hold better than hot glue with stress, but the hot glue would be pretty good under most temporary situations. One good solution is actually to use *both* white glue and glue gun glue. Just put dots or lines of them in slightly different places (not on top of each other). Start with the white glue, then quickly add the hot glue and press the posterboards together... the hot glue will hold immediately and keep the pieces together while the white glue dries and holds even better. As mentioned, double-stick tapes of any kind would work too. Spray adhesives will also work, especially if the two pieces are joined while the spray is still wet and they're pressed together for awhile. **be sure to use a *permanent* white glue like Elmer's GlueAll, not like Elmer's Washable School Glue ..."tacky" white glues could be good in this situation since they're thicker and have a bit of immediate grab, especially if you're *not* using the hot glue too Diane B.
3. I think i will be better if u used white glue from a bottle if u use glue gun it will be hard to stick and takes along time to do
4. This depends entirely on the project at hand. I use PVA for paper mache out of a large bottle container. Yet it can be used for many more things including: Sealer, wood joints, mixing with water based paints to make acrylic like paints, material stiffeners, paper mache pulp & more. Generally specific glueshave specific uses. If something is to be under stress then you would want an apoxy based resin glue. If something was to have some stress releasing movment then liquid none apoxy glues are required. Its a matter of common sense in the end. Read the instructions, use your head!.