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Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 4:08:02 AM

plasticjoe

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What's a good home made CA kicker ?

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 4:31:41 AM

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.....time.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 5:26:22 AM

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Patience.....

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 5:35:25 AM

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baking soda works with thin.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 5:40:36 AM

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....thin Ca kicks as soon as it leaves it's container....

....no matter what the unfortunate medium it lands upon.

FBD.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 8:42:34 AM

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skin.......

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 11:46:01 AM

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Anywhere you don't want the CA to be will kick it off.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 11:59:12 AM

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Just stick your finger in it.......kicks instantly.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 12:44:59 PM

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Bottom line, I do not think that there is a home made kicker. Baking soda will make CA go off, however you are then left with a pile of rock hard baking soda to sand off. Thin CA usually does not need any kicker. Kicker is for the thicker CA glues's. Good Luck, Dave

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 3:50:42 PM

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Water with a little ammonia in a spray bottle.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 6:28:34 PM

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I read somewhere that it is nitromethane. I have never tried it.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/13/2007 9:19:28 PM

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Any encapsulating liquid will kick it off, I have even used windex while at a race just to get back in the action. It's pretty messy though. Just go buy some.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/14/2007 6:15:23 AM

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Nitromethane is an ingredient debonder

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/19/2007 4:18:03 AM

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Commercial CA kickers contain one or more organic compounds known as amines because the CA curing reaction is catalyzed by basic reagents. They usually also are based on a mixture of various solvents.

These substances are not so easy for your average modeler to obtain, since commercial chemical suppliers won't sell to the public.

The best suggestion (apart from time, patience etc.) is very dilute household ammonia in a spray bottle. Organic amines are close relatives to ammonia - and the key here is not what particular base you use but just to make the environment basic.

I have found that in a pinch (i.e. when my bottle of kicker was across the shop and the thick CA I was trying to use to fillet something is starting to flow out of the joint that I am holding with both hands - don't ask

) just spitting on the joint will work - your saliva has a pH on the alkaline side of neutral.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 11/19/2007 2:45:14 PM

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2 parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 4/11/2008 2:59:37 AM

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Alka Seltzer

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RE: Home Made CA Kicker - 4/11/2008 7:26:24 PM

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hot breath moisture in your mouth spraying over it will work too.

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