CA glue

Robert Scott rscott@wwnet.net
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:03:54 -0400


Paul McCloud wrote:

>The moisture in the air
>makes it coagulate.  You can hasten the cure of the glue by breathing
>heavily on it.  Or moisten one part to be joined and put glue on the
>other- it will harden immediately.

That's right.  It seems from a previous round of postings on what makes
CA cure, moisture was the prime ingredient.  So every time you open
your bottle, or every time some air gets sucked up into the bottle
to replace the CA that you squirt out, the moisture in that air gets
to react with the remaining CA.  Perhaps if CA glue were available in
large toothpaste tubes, just like the small quantities of superglue,
then there would be less opportunity for moisture-ladden air to ruin
your CA.

-Robert Scott
 Ypsilanti, MI




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