Originally Posted By: BigD1
Champ's glue machine must be broken. I used the $5 off $10 at O'Reilly's today to buy three more ACDelco PF52 Classics. Looking down the center tube, and looking at the bottom of the spring that holds it together, the whole spring was covered with glue. The other two filters looked good. Going to take it back tomorrow, and do an exchange.
The filter that has too much glue was manufactured on July 8, 2015. Don't think the glue will hurt anything, but I am exchanging it anyway.
Anyone know how the glue application is delivered? I take it they use 55 gallon drums of the stuff, press the glue out under heat and pressure, I assume it's reactive melt like Techno Melt? The problem is if the glue gets heat saturated at the end of a drum, the hotter it is the more comes out.
This might be a quality issue, is Champ Labs verifying samples, correctly or at all?
That is a lot of "squeeze", it MIGHT be within spec, but if I was a operator on the line, I would say something, since your using 2x the glue per product, that glue is NOT cheap.