[pianotech] CA Glue

[Susan Kline]

  On 9/7/2010 8:29 PM, Bill Fritz wrote:
> The inventor of cyanoacrylates, Harry Coover </wiki/Harry_Coover>, 
> said in 1966 that a superglue spray was used in the Vietnam War 
> </wiki/Vietnam_war> to retard bleeding in wounded soldiers until they 
> could be brought to a hospital.
  It's very useful. I've heard that dentists use it for small cuts 
because bandaids worry their patients.

As for the sterility problem, using it for a deep cut, that's why we 
have immune systems. Regular stitches also pose an infection risk, even 
using sterile sutures.

By the way, in case people forgot what I wrote in the Journal about it, 
if you mix CA glue with a water-based glue, the resulting bond is so 
much stronger than CA alone that you can truly glue yourself to yourself 
in a way which requires acetone and a lot of patience and determination 
to reverse. Don't ask me how I know ...

Susan Kline
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