spilled ca glue
 

ca glue spilled on work bench, also wires from servoes imbedded into glue. how does one disolve the ca?

RE: spilled ca glue
 

Acetone. Perhaps a bit of cloth dipped in acetone to keep it wet. It while take a while, but will cut it. Test it on the wires, but I doubt it will harm the insulation. Also cleans the CA out of the glue bottle nozzles.

RE: spilled ca glue
 

Hi!
Acetone works rather good if the Ca is wet or just dropped on the surface...but pure nitro works much much better.

Regards!
Jan K
Sweden

RE: spilled ca glue
 

This may be true, but acetone is much easier to find, is much less volatile, and finally, is less $.

RE: spilled ca glue
 

If the workbench has a smooth surface - such as a painted surface - the CyA ought to come off with the razor blade tapped against the junction of the glue and the workbench. Also, since the CyA dries fairly brittle, you may be able to chip it off the wires or even get it off the wires by bending them and breaking the CyA.

RE: spilled ca glue
 

Chuck

Actually acetone is much more volatile than nitromethane. Volatility is generally a consideration of vapor pressure / evaporation rate producing flammable vapors. The vapor pressure and evap rate of acetone is around 6X that of nitro. The flash point (a test quantity heated until a small flame passed over the surface will ignite the vapors momentarily) of acetone is -20F, while nitro is +95F. Just as important, vapors that are much more likely to occur with acetone (hard to prevent), have a wide explosive range. I'm not recommending the general use of nitro - there are serious hazards associated with pure nitromethane - but these can be (are) mitigated somewhat by mixing with methanol (with flammability properties becoming those of methanol - still less volatile than acetone). Toxicology wise they're similar, with nitro having less odor. Agree on your points regarding availability / cost. However, at least one readily available CA Debonder appears to be nitro (several are acetone) and works quite well as an odor free solvent for small jobs.

Essentially, using acetone in the shop is near the danger level of using gasoline - vapors can sneak off and surprise one with ignition.

RE: spilled ca glue
 

Just cut the wires, clean up your bench and resolder a new set of wires (if it's a big mess)

RE: spilled ca glue
 

thanks for the replies. ended up just taking the loss, cut all wires and soldered and shrinke tubed. chised glue away and started using glue caddy wife bought me a few years ago.