Answers please!

[Eddy Matthews]

I'm sure we've all done this, but why is it that you can spend an evening gluing stuff together with superglue (cyano), and you then spend hours trying to get the damned stuff off your fingers......

But go to bed with it still there, and you wake up in the morning with no superglue to be seen!!

WHY??

Eddy

[Talisman]

Thats what makes it Super Glue

[Eddy Matthews]

Thats what makes it Super Glue

I have to admit, I'd never thought of that!

Eddy

[Peter Webster]

Eddy,
       Try putting more on your fingers.
Then you're sure to wake up with it still on you're fingers

[scotfriend]

Glue your fingers (all 10) together maybe then you can fine out where it goes but if i leave it on my fingers in the morning it is still there do i use the wrong super glue?

Hans

[steamboatmodel]

A friend who works in the emergency dept of the local hospital told me an amusing story about a alleged cheating Husband and his wife's experiments with super glue and lubricant. I can't tell it here this being a family forum, but I will leave it to your imagination.
Regards,
Gerald.

[Talisman]

Another Q why does it goe off the min it touches something that needs time to position yet takes ages when you want it to go off quick. ? Funny old stuff...

[poodge]

Talisman,that's because it's also known as instant glue.
btw,the accellerator stuff is basically just water and baking soda,so you can make your own for practically nothing.put it in a small atomizer bottle,and presto,your slow setting cyano goes off instantly.It does leave a slight stain on balsa though.Don't know about other materials.

[Eddy Matthews]

Well, I've now found out why you should spend some time to clean superglue off your hands before going to bed......

SWMBO wasn't impressed when she came to make the bed today - It needed the vacuum cleaner to remove what looked like the worst case of dandruff you've ever seen!

I didn't dare tell her what it was!!

Eddy

[Talisman]

Talisman,that's because it's also known as instant glue.
btw,the accellerator stuff is basically just water and baking soda,so you can make your own for practically nothing.put it in a small atomizer bottle,and presto,your slow setting cyano goes off instantly.It does leave a slight stain on balsa though.Don't know about other materials.

i find spit sets it off quick handy if you don't have an extra hand to position stuff 

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's......many years ago I was supervising a trainee engineer in the Above Water Weapons Department @ HMA Garden Island Naval Dockyard

Needless say I am not at liberty to discuss the specific task at hand...but suffice to confirm it involved the use of an American baby tube of MILxxx SG [superglue]  ...& yes we were attempting to glue a few bits of a missile launcher amplifer together

This was also prior to mandatory use of safety glasses

OK...... ....a squirt of SG penetrated my right eye................I assumed I was blinded...as my eye would not open

A short stint with the Naval surgeons resulted in me being transferred to the Sydney Eye Hospital....jut up the road from GID

The duty eye surgeon suggested I part take in a cup of tea as I appeared  distressed & & really needed to relax

I must have looked a sight as the GID medico team poured diluted hibitane solution over 1/2 of my face

The duty eye surgeon joined me for the cup of tea & slowly explained that when a drop of SG contacts a wet surface [such as my wet eye] the chemical reaction is that the SG will set similar to grains of silica like material, however not attached to any skin or tissue surface

The important thing was to relax & allow the GRIT to be surgically washed away prior to any damage occuring to the eye

I felt a bit of a fool ...... .....however was reasurred that it was a totally involuntary action/reaction from the human mind to assume that the eye was glued for life ........Derek

[steamboatmodel]

When SG first came out I had a sample in a plastic bottle which the nozzle constantly plugged up. I had just cut the end of the nozzle off and was squeezing the bottle, when the blockage came free. The blockage and about one third of the continence of the bottle hit me on the forehead above my right eye. To stop the stuff from running into my eye I put my right hand up to wipe it away. My right hand which had also got glue on it was holding the scalpel which I had cut the nozzle with, yes I did glue my hand to my forehead, with the scalpel glued to my hand and to add insult to injury I didn't prevent the glue from running into my eye which I had closed. Five hours latter at the local hospital they did get everything cleaned up ( I would have been faster, but they had to stop laughing and making comments about do it yourself brain surgery). For a couple of years the emergency room doctor who I knew personally refereed to me as "The Brain Surgeon"
Regards,
Gerald.