Does CA glue go bad?
01-15-2010 | 03:42 AM
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From: Elmendorf AFB,
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Does CA glue go bad?
After years of building RC kits, I've stopped buying the big, 2oz bottles of CA glue. Even though it costs more, I just buy a couple of the 1oz bottles instead. It seems to me, that the glue just doesn't dry as fast after it's been open for a while. I always put the lid back on when I'm done with it, but if I'm using a 2oz bottle, it just doesn't seem like it works as well as it does when it's freshly opened. Has anybody else noticed the same thing? My hobby shop was out of the 1oz bottles a few weeks ago and I'm using a 2oz bottle. I'm noticing the same thing.
01-15-2010 | 03:53 AM
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RE: Does CA glue go bad?
Hi
Yep thats the case. Will keep longer if you refrigerate it when not in use. Not much else you can do. Keep some kicker handy, it helps.
Vince
Yep thats the case. Will keep longer if you refrigerate it when not in use. Not much else you can do. Keep some kicker handy, it helps.
Vince
01-15-2010 | 10:29 AM
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From: proserpineQueensland, AUSTRALIA
RE: Does CA glue go bad?
another thing to watch for is a ottle thats gone very opaqe, usually means its just about had it. I have gone away from c/a glues altogether simply because I cant get usable bottles, I ordered 2oz each of thin and med, and one was solid and the other syrup and both bottles very frosty looking. needless to say both got returned. The joys of country living I guess [:'(][:'(][&:]
01-15-2010 | 01:14 PM
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RE: Does CA glue go bad?
I buy it in the 8oz bottle. I keep a 2oz. bottle on my bench and store the 8oz in the freezer then just fill the small shop bottle as needed. I have never had it go bad this way. If it starts to get that milkey look I don't use it. I live in a desert so there isn't much moisture in the air so even my opened shop bottle never seems to go bad or slow down. When I lived in the mountains I had one bottle cure completely while sitting in my shop so I started freezing it.
01-15-2010 | 08:41 PM
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From: Elmendorf AFB,
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RE: Does CA glue go bad?
This is what I figured! I have a beer fridge in my garage. I'll just start keeping it in there. Yes, we do have refrigerators in Alaska. No air conditioners though! I sure wish I had one last summer when we set a record high of 86 degrees here in Anchorage! It doesn't cool down at night either since... there's no night. 
01-15-2010 | 09:56 PM
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RE: Does CA glue go bad?
Use the 8oz bottles. Take several of your 1oz bottles, soak them in ammonia to get then clean. Then just fill one as you need it, don't even need to fill it up. Keep the 8oz in the freezer. When you empty it, put it back in the ammonia to clean. just leave all the emptys in the ammonia until needed. When not in use, I keep all my CA in the freezer and have had no problems with keeping it for several years.
01-17-2010 | 11:57 AM
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RE: Does CA glue go bad?
My LHS sell the CA Bottle lids and spouts really cheap and that is the only thing that gives me trouble with CA ever and the bottles last real well (thanks for the Ammonia trick)... I did actually have some CA in unopened bottles go bad sitting in the Refridgerator, I think it had been there a couple of years though. it is real dry where I live too especially in winter, I sometimes forget the cap and never had a problem. I read somewhere that moisture and Alkaline PH is what sets off CA, I guess the Kicker is made of some high Alkaline soultion and we all know about the Baking Soda trick to set it off. If I lived in Florida I would be religious about puting the caps on as this stuff is expensive!
01-17-2010 | 06:25 PM
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RE: Does CA glue go bad?
ORIGINAL: Daddyo57
My LHS sell the CA Bottle lids and spouts really cheap and that is the only thing that gives me trouble with CA ever and the bottles last real well (thanks for the Ammonia trick)... I did actually have some CA in unopened bottles go bad sitting in the Refridgerator, I think it had been there a couple of years though. it is real dry where I live too especially in winter, I sometimes forget the cap and never had a problem. I read somewhere that moisture and Alkaline PH is what sets off CA, I guess the Kicker is made of some high Alkaline soultion and we all know about the Baking Soda trick to set it off. If I lived in Florida I would be religious about puting the caps on as this stuff is expensive!
My LHS sell the CA Bottle lids and spouts really cheap and that is the only thing that gives me trouble with CA ever and the bottles last real well (thanks for the Ammonia trick)... I did actually have some CA in unopened bottles go bad sitting in the Refridgerator, I think it had been there a couple of years though. it is real dry where I live too especially in winter, I sometimes forget the cap and never had a problem. I read somewhere that moisture and Alkaline PH is what sets off CA, I guess the Kicker is made of some high Alkaline soultion and we all know about the Baking Soda trick to set it off. If I lived in Florida I would be religious about puting the caps on as this stuff is expensive!
