It's evil stuff & whoever decided they needed to make "thin" CA is a very dark creature. Share your mishaps so others can learn from your mistakes!

I was gluing tires for a 1/8th scale buggy. They already had a good bead on the inside but I thought I'd be safe & add another on the outside. I got in a bit of a hurry & turned one over shortly after adding a little too much medium CA. The result was a palm full of CA. I didn't think water would do much to remove it & since a large bottle of alcohol was nearby I grabbed it. A splash of alcohol & a few seconds later I saw my palm turning ghost white & I found out that these two chemicals get warm when mixed. Can we say chemical burn? The bathroom sink cooled the burning but I still ended up picking glue & skin off my palm. [:'(]

This time I was gluing tires for a MT. The LHS didn't have any medium or thick CA so I was stuck with thin. I knew it wouldn't be fun but it was all I had access to. The end of my thumb was covered in so much CA that it didn't even hurt to rip it off the tire anymore & I found it a little unnerving as I shaved layers of glue off my thumb with a Xacto knife. The part that REALLY sucked was when I turned one tire over (that had been sitting for at least a minute) & felt a wet sensation on my stomach. Luckily (I think) I wasn't wearing a shirt so I didn't have to rip that off but it was very uncomfortable as I detached the tire from my gut. Even worse than that all the hair in that spot seemed to get stretched in every direction imaginable so I was left with a whole new kind of pain. Picking it off wasn't working at all since CA bonds REALLY well to hair so I bit the bullet & shaved it off. Not only do I have a 2" tall oval of smooth skin just above my belly button but I have some razor burn worthy of some kind of hall of fame. [:@]

The good news is I should have another pair of MT tires coming in the mail tomorrow & they're 40 series so I get to deal with even more glue! YAAAY!! [&:]

never ever have I used CA without getting some of it on my fingers or some other place

well that is all

Heh heh, That sucks. I managed a nice screwup a while back. I was trying to fix some stripped screw` holes on a very old radioshack buggy. Since I was at college & this should have been a quick fix, I just put it in my lap and started glueing away.

Now for the catch: The `screw holes didn't have a bottom.
You see the problem?

So when I was done screwing everything back together, I put my RC on the floor and realized I had a problem. The CA' went straight through the holes and dripped onto my mesh shorts. In my infinite wisdom, I tried pushing a finger between my leg and the shorts... only to discover that now my shorts were sticking to my leg and my finger. ****.

The `glue still hasn't come out of my shorts & the weird part is that there are still patches on my leg without any hair where the `glue was.


Here are accelerants for CA:
Water[sm=drowning.gif]
Alcohol[sm=eek.gif]
Cellulose -cotton, paper towels, paper, etc.
Cloth -the large surface area allows for rapid curing

If there's enough superglue, a cotton ball, paper towel or even a shop rag might catch fire if you use it to clean up the mess. I managed to somewhat melt a torn ski glove I tried to fix with superglue. :-\

Had the following happen to me once and also to a fellow flyer:

Opened a new bottle of thin CA and after that nights buiding session put it in the refrigerator to keep it fresh. Placed it on the inside door shelf. Next night I could not open the refrigerator door. After cutting the gasket away I found what I had expected, the bottle fell over, loose cap, and the CA wicked all down that side and completely across the bottom. No big loss for me as it was a spare refrig kept in the shop for storing materials such as epoxy. My friend, on the other hand, placed his in the kitchen refrigerator which was less than two months old. Brand new all stainless steel job that his wife had demanded for a year. Fortunately, being stainless, all he had to do was clean the SS off with a razor and buy a new gasket ($175.00) though it did permanently mar the lower shelf and I think one of the crisper baskets.

I posted this in another thread the other day......


I CA'd my wedding ring on.....by accident of course!!!


Guess I am "stuck" with my wife now!!

My big sister was smart enough to go into my room and get my thin and then she glued her hands together. I have no idea on how she got them apart. Shes 18. Really smart don't you think?

That was in this thread http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/The_...2748197/tm.htm

As for me the worst thing i have done is glued my nose nostrols together.

!...OUCH...!

I have had a mishap too, well, kind of. About 5 months ago i recieved my hpi sprint and the only thing u had to do to the car b4 u ran it was to glue the tires on with CA glue. I was unaware of the strength of CA glue and how quik it dries. I started to carefully squeeze the tiny bottle of glue around the tire. I picked the tire up with my thumb and did not notice that some glue had dripped off the side. When I noticed that i had been instant cemented to a tire i carefully got up and noticed that i had knocked down the bottle. The glue started pouring out onto my garage floor. I didnt panic because i knew it was just an accident and i could clean it up, but one problem was that the other two tires were glued to the floor. I finally got the first tire off my thumb. When I got the other two off i had two 24mm circles stuck to my garage floor. I was really frustrated. I was 12 and my parents would be really mad so i got a warm towel and started to heat up the two tire spots. When i noticed the towel had been stuck to the floor i just quit. I tore out the towel and just left those two circles there. I just wanted to drive my new car.

HEHE I ruined like half of all my clothes because the CA would harden up and rip the cloth around the hardened CA. So now there are little holes in some of my pants and shirts. Now I have "Hobby" cloths and "not CAed clothes"

and on the side if you glue your sock to the floor don't rip it off you may find yourself withe a hole in your sock(personal experience)[8D]

Everytime I glue tires I get glue on my fingers. Nomatter how many percautions I take it just gets everywhere. I tried to apply it with a Q-tip, but after a few seconds the glue caused the Q-tip to start "smoking".when the glue was on the Q-tip for more than 5 seconds, it dried instantly.

I went to take a leak and yup had glue on my fingers and glued them to my tally whacker, now that was painful!!!!!![X(] I think what was worse though was the Wife crying from laughing so hard while she got the razor and acetone [X(] to free my hand, out of commission for awhile![&o]

After years of gluing anything to everything, now I have a BIG bottle of acetone on the table!!! I clean the tips regulary and use thin CA only with those thin long tips http://www.hobbico.com/accys/hcar3780.html , they're great!

It's really anoying when gluing small parts, the freakin' glue bonds your fingers to balsa INSTANTLY and sometimes it won't dry on balsa to balsa for seconds......


Saludos,

HAHAHA This is all so true, and has happened to all of us RCers. I am loving this thread. I hate the Thin on arm or leg hair, makes for a fun day picking it all off-OHH the Pain! Then you look like you just had a wax job, with bald spots on your arms or legs. Last time was with a huge bottle of Zap, I was trying to unclog the tip and it squirted out onto my leg, glued my shorts to my leg-- OUCH. I told my wife to try it instead of wax. LOL

hahahaha lol i'm sorry but that is so funny but its serious. I definetly wouldn't want to be in your spot. Sorry but its just funny.

this was pain full i was gluing tires a few months ago and the bottle of glue was leaning on my foot (i was sitting on the floor) then i put the glue away and layed down to watch TV for a while then i noticed my foot was glued to my TV stand there was no way i could get up so i pulled my foot away ....OUCH...[:@] that hurt like hell i almost glued my palm to the bottom of my tire to

Too funny

Gluing a cap strip on an Extra and I was holding it through the lightening holes until it cured. Then had to try to get this thing on my hand upstairs. Mind you, it was fully assembled too.

now I don't feel so bad, it's not just me! I learned my lesson years ago when I was building a wing . got it all done went to move it only to find it was part of the table now.... or how about when you get a drink and then can't put the cup down.

What would be more wierd was if it was someone ELSE's hand glued.... [X(]

This is not a mishap that happened to me, but it was an act of valdalism that backfired. We had a rash of broken (frozen door locks in our apartment complex. This continued for several month with something like 45 door locks being frozen, unable to be unlocked. There was a case where the same person had to replace their door lock 7 times. As it turns out an older teen in the complex was going around pouring Medium CA and Kicker into door locks and dead bolts. Locking up the locks usually when locked. This means calling a locksmith to remove the lock, usually by cutting it apart. The cops were not having any luck catching the person responsible. Well after 5 months of this you can imagine how many people in the complex were really mad. Well the kid ended up getting his just deserts. On day while glueing up some 11 locks, he got enough on his hand that when he leaned on a door with his hand it set up. evidently, he had alot on his hand and could not get away. When someone heard him screaming for help, and saw what was going on, the cops were called. I guess they finally got their guy red handed....

Poetic justice! Someone used to do that to my locker in high school. Glad they caught him, especially the way they did. Hope they made him pay for ALL of the destroyed locks.

A guy I work with pulled a good one about a week ago. He & another guy decided to mess with someone in their department by gluing their eye loop (miniature magnifying glass) to a table. The guy showed up to do some work & noticed the eye loop but knew his was in his pocket so he just laughed & went about his work. It turned out that they had actually glued the 1st guy's eye loop to the table. It's a rare & beautiful thing when a prankster pranks their self. lol

I know what you mean about this stuff, it takes alot of force just to get two fingers unstuck,(i tried it as a test/dare) dries so fast! A while ago I took a bottle of tire glue to my school to compare my friends skateboard glue to it. Well I got bored so I tried glueing down the keyboard in my computers class Luckily for the teacher most of it just got stuck to the table rather than the keyboard. Too bad for me when I got home I found that it had just about exploded in it's little container messing up everything in that part of my backpack. To this day I still have large sections of a ziploc bag, pieces of headphone wire covering, and a large clip stuck in there. Lesson- don't mess with glue!

i like, and hate CA. i like it cos its so easy and quick and light, but i hate it cos it sticks skin better than anything else[:@] By accident ive had it in my eye twice, i wouldnt advise it.

Ian

Once tried to repair a polystyrene box with the stuff....... it melted in to a gooey blob.

CA glue was originally developed to seal up wounds and is still used, mainly by Vets.