cycleruk wrote:Used super glue on balsa wood model planes. Gaps can be filled using baking soda as mentioned above. But fill gap first with the powder then a drop of glue to set it. Also a drop of spit on the joint first also helps. Normally would use a PVA based glue but the super glue was instant compared with setting rate of PVA.
Used to use Keil Kraft balsa wood glue when I made them. First came across super glue stuff in the late seventies. At work we had a Loctite kit for making O rings - lengths of different diameter material you'd cut to size and then stick with the glue. May be wrong but I was told Loctite developed it for that purpose. Can you remember the early adverts where a gymnast type chappy glued a rubber ring together and then did acrobatics dangling from it. Bet it was made of Loctite O ring material which they knew the glue worked well on.
We had a similar demonstration at work. Rep' came with "O" ring kit which we used on the odd occasion we didn't have the correct size. The trick was to get the two ends to marry up perfectly. Hopefully without sticking various fingers together.
Ours had a thing like a glorified cigar cutter to cut the ends square which helped with the join.
'Give me my bike, a bit of sunshine - and a stop-off for a lunchtime pint - and I'm a happy man.' - Reg Baker
Every now and again, we need super glue. Maybe only two or three times a year, but when you want it, you want it.
Only this morning, I mended something - (non bike related) - and the tube that I'd used previously, had a seized solid cap. Try as I might, I couldn't open it, so pierced the tube with a pin and let the glue out onto a piece of paper to apply using a matchstick.
That worked well, but what was really needed, was a decent tube.
Can you buy super glue in a proper plastic bottle that seals properly and will open properly, even months between uses?
But if you go to somewhere that builders go you can buy a big bottle 75ml or so for fourpence, and the benefit is that you can get a pair of pliers on the bigger tube when it's welded itself closed as usual.
Bonefishblues wrote:Nothing that I can see. Given their tendency to stick their own caps to the tube, then multiple tubes is a smart choice.
I think a few small tubes rather than a big tube makes sense for that reason. I bet you dont use the glue that often so it might be months before you have to use it again and the remainder may have deteriorated? Thats how Poundlander tends to sell it 4 or 5 small tubes for a £1
Bonefishblues wrote:Nothing that I can see. Given their tendency to stick their own caps to the tube, then multiple tubes is a smart choice.
I think a few small tubes rather than a big tube makes sense for that reason. I bet you dont use the glue that often so it might be months before you have to use it again and the remainder may have deteriorated? Thats how Poundlander tends to sell it 4 or 5 small tubes for a £1
Probably so, but my big bottle will last forever (or at least until the strength to jemmy it open leaves me, which may come first).
It was indeed bought from a upvc window company by the way.
I did try super-gluing part of a rim tape to a rim, once. I thought the tape was slipping sideways, exposing the spoke-holes and causing p***tures (that wasn't the cause, it later transpired). But the glue wouldn't stick either the tape or the rims. It did go all over my hands though - and although I managed to prise my fingers apart, it was a devil of a job to clean the stuff off. Persisted for several days.
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity. Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments... --- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Horrible stuff on your fingers. Been there, done that!
As for slipping rim tape, use double-sided sticky tape under it, or a couple of revolutions of PVC tape on the top. Use a penknife to cut the hole for the valve.
I buy superglue from an on-line hobbies supplier: 2.10 € for a 1.7 oz bottle & ~3€ postage. I've been using the same bottle on & off since April last year.
What I can't find to buy in France is Würth's superglue accelerator - something about postal regs. It makes the glue cure in seconds.
BTW, is the masking-tape/superglue trick widely known? If you have a workpiece to hold down, you put a length of tape on it and another on the bench, then glue the two pieces of tape together with superglue. When you're done they're very easy to pull apart - miles easier than double-sided tape.
Mick F wrote:Can you buy super glue in a proper plastic bottle that seals properly and will open properly, even months between uses?
Well, I spent a fiver in Morrisons yesterday for some Gorilla Super Glue. I see Amazon sell it but 16p more. https://www.amazon.co.uk/GORILLA-404450 ... glue+super Not tried the brush, but the glue from the nozzle came out fine, and they tell you in the instructions to wipe the nozzle after use with a dry cloth. This I did, and tried to open the bottle 24hrs later to see if it had seized .................. and it was absolutely fine and clean. Time will tell of course, but I'm very optimistic.
Mick F wrote::lol: Horrible stuff on your fingers. Been there, done that!
I read somewhere that it was originally developed for battlefield surgeons as a means of closing wounds. No idea if that's right, though.
It's very good for closing small wounds.Some years ago I asked a doctor about using it on small cuts etc an he said it would be OK to use it. Earlier in the year I had a hernia repair done by keyhole surgery,the three wounds were sealed with superglue
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