Don’t you just absolutely hate it when you buy a new bottle of Gorilla glue or gel for a project, just to find out that it has dried up a few months later? This usually happens when you don’t use it for a while and it just sits around until the next need comes along. However, as it sits around, it can start to harden on the inside and becomes useless.

The trick to preventing this is pretty easy and it comes down to storage. The trick is to help preserve the seal through an external means since its own seal kind of sucks (it’s the same thing for normal Super/Krazy/Loctite glues as well). The easiest way of doing this is to store the bottle,. tube, or whatever form you bought it in, inside of a plastic storage bag (ie, ziplock sandwich bag). This way, its own seal has less of a chance of being exposed to the open air.

To add to this, throw in a pack of silica gel. You can find these in so many different packages that products come in. It’s great to save these in a plastic bag for projects like this because they can really come in handy at times. This is one of them.

You might think. wouldn’t that dry up the glue by removing all of the moisture from it? No. As long as the top is screwed on well enough (no over-tightening required), it will not affect the glue itself. Instead, it helps maintain whatever air is left within the baggy and you want that air to be dry else it will promote whatever glue within the threads of the cap from hardening and preventing you from opening it later.

You can let 6 months or more pass. When you take the bottle out of the bag and go to open it, you’ll find it opens perfectly fine (it won’t be glued shut), and the glue inside will be perfectly preserved.