De-glue-ified (mostly)

[jeshyr]

Thank you all for the acetone suggestions - mostly I just didn't have the spoons to go get any but also I know from experience that enough would peel off soon enough, which it mostly has. Also having had (much) experience with superglue, I was quick enough to make sure that although three of my fingers were mostly covered in glue they weren't stuck to each other or to anything else which helped!

The superglue I've used for a long time has been nifty blue bottles which have a tiny plastic-bag-like bladder inside - google tells me it's Selley's Supa Glue Control Bottle. It's like magic - unlike every other superglue I've ever owned the top does not easily glue itself shut and it works for months. And if the glue won't come out, you squeeze harder and then it works ...

Last time I ran out though, I could not get any and resorted to one of those nasty tiny tubes. It seems that I had accidentally programmed myself with "if glue does not flow, squeeze harder".

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Also, the Selley's is back on the shopping list :)


For the crafty types, I have uploaded some new photos to flickr of recent projects.

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Comments

[sheramil]

it would seem that the manufacturers of cyanoacrylate indirectly acknowledge this .. propensity for the stuff to act in a kind of 'tsundere' manner - obstinate, then enthusiastic. the last time i bought some, it came in the form of six tubes the size of golf tees. saying "we know the second half of the tube is going to be wasted, so we've made the tubes smaller."

it's called portion control :D

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[acelightning]

over here, most CA glue comes in tubes that really aren't squeezable or flexible (they appear to be made out of medium-density polyethylene). instead, the opening (once you've cut or pierced the opening) only allows tiny droplets of the glue to pass. when the opening gets clogged or the glue inside the tube hardens (one or the other of these things is inevitable), any of the instinctive things you might do to try to squeeze more glue out will cause some kind of messy failure.

i've taken to using all sorts of other kinds of glue, only using CA when absolutely nothing else will work. i miss the old-fashioned solvent-based glues like DUCO Cement - they worked for all sorts of things - but i've seen the results of people sniffing glue (or huffing solvents), and i understand banning the stuff :-(