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Old 11-21-2002 | 10:48 PM
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This all reminds me of something funny that happened to me back in the early 80s when I first discoved Ca or Zap as I knew it back then. This was before I realized that it all was pretty much what everybody called "Superglue" during that time.
I figured it shared pretty much the same qualities as epoxy but was just much faster setting. I wanted to apply some cloth reinforcement to a foam wing like I had done in the past with thinned epoxy...so I poured alcohol into about half a bottle of Ca, thinking that I could just shake it up and brush it on.
Wrong! It cured instantly in my hand with a LOT of heat and actually split the bottle wide open. Scared the bejesus out of me. I was holding a solid lump of white Ca glue. It was just like a rock.
This is the incident that taught me that alcohol works just fine as kicker.