Repairing loose rows on Hagnar stock sheets

You know , I never thought about it! Usually when one line gives way the rest are doomed to follow so I chop them up and use to carry eBay sales etc or as stiffeners in mailing.


to repair , one would need a glue dispenser with a fine nozzle. Eg a superglue  so watch the fingers , watch the stamps 

you do raise some interesting points Terri,  philatelia  

I have some that were almost new that I snagged on something or other that only have one loose row. Those are the ones I want to fix. But yes, you’re right, vikingeck, when old ones start to fail the entire page was probably short of adhesive so the rest of the page is probably going to fall off. 

This is just my opinion, but I strongly dissuade trying to repair strips from stockbooks/stockpages unless you just want to experiment with low-value duplicate stamps. The simple reason -- it's really hard to get the adhesive quality control in terms of position/spread. There's a reason why they use machines to do it. The adhesive you use will almost certainly get "squished" unevenly. The glue used is a "rubber" glue, and you can get your stamp tips gunked up (think, putting too many stamps in a G&K collector card and having them push down to the very bottom glue area and then having to get stamp tongs to forcibly pull then out -- or worse, tearing the clear pocket off so you can pull your stamps off the backing card!).

That being said, you need a pH-neutral "rubber" adhesive, such as pH-neutral PVA. These can be purchased readily in small squeeze bottles with tips online. Go with the established brands. When you go archival, it doesn't make sense to skimp. The hard part is getting an idea of how much glue to use and to be able to apply it consistently. Can't really use painter's/masking tape, huh? Have fun, you brave soul.

The durability of these types of "rubber" glues is strongly affected by environmental extremes. Basically, anything that won't let a rubber band last long, will bode poorly for Hagner stock sheets.

When I start running into this problem with "glued" stockpage/stockbook strips, I remove all the stamps, press/slide hard with the back of my fingernail where the separation is starting along the length of the glue line. If the separation is not too much and the glue hasn't gotten too dried out, you can re-adhere the strip this way. Then keep the page pressed with a Scott catalog for a day or so. Can't really do a catalog press with stockbook, so you sometimes have to repeat the fingernail press a number of times and keep the stockbook snuggly closed. This doesn't always work, but does on occasion work for me if the separation is just beginning and the glue still has some of its "rubber" qualities.

Note, the Hawid glue pen would not work on paper/card backing, since it's not actually a glue but chemically "melts" the material to seal the edge. So that is not an option here.

[EDIT: last paragraph, correct Hawid mount glue to Hawid glue pen. Thanks, brookbam! Not sure what Hawid mount glue is made from.]

OUCH!

Here is a 2fer repair job. I am sure I am in the house of disdain but then I do not use hinges - only mounts!

1. tape
2. hole reinforcers

I use them on Hagners in my duplicates binders. I am not a Hagner fan due to these issues but they look a lot better than the plastic reflective Varios. I wish they had a better quality stock. I have not tried pH testing Hageners.