I can't get over how useful super glue is

Just a quick note in praise of the super glue.

I keep a tiny tube in the junk drawer and I feel like I use it weekly, nearly always with great result, and the tiny tube also never seems to run out or go bad. It's easy and quick to use as well with little mess if any.

I wonder how duct tape ever garnered the praise it did - because it is garbage at holding things together compared to super glue.

Don't get it on your hootus. 

It is very useful though. I keep a bottle of the stuff around for those occasions where A needs to stick to B forever. 

I've upgraded to epoxy.  Its super glue for men.

Need to fill a crack? Just use superglue and baking soda. Magic!

JFW75 said:

Need to fill a crack? Just use superglue and baking soda. Magic!

Also useful if you need it stuck NOW. I used the trick repairing some of my kids cheap plastic toys, it also provides some reinforcement fillet.

Time to broken from giving toy to child, 15min. Time since without failure, 8 months and counting.

Need cheap activator ? Breathe on it.

I'm told you can make your own superglue from silica gel packets.  Anyone tried it?

I love the little single-use mini tubes. The bigger ones always seem to dry up on me.

In reply to Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) :

The Chinese stuff is terrible about setting up in the bottle. Bob Smith Industries makes it in the states and the fresh stuff lasts a long time. Keeping it in the refrigerator also helps significantly with the shelf life. 

When Lil Stampie was in 1st grade the school called us saying that he had an accident on the playground and had a cut on his knee.  His mom was in a better position to go get him so she did.  I soon got a call from her asking me where I was as "you need to talk to your son."  Told her where I was and they roll up a little later.  Seems he insisted to her that we could just put super glue on his cut like Daddy did.  I looked at and was like no this is way beyond super glue.  I think he got like 7 stitches.  I always keep it around for those annoying cuts that I should have gotten stitches but didn't feel like bothering with it.

In reply to Stampie :

And when that black finger nail starts to grow out, break up and get caught on everything 

I keep a tube in the garage freezer that rarely lets me down. 

My hands are sooo dry here where I live.  Winter is the worst. I put lotion on but they still are like the Mojave Desert. So I have cuts that won't heal. But Super Glue does the trick! That is the latest one with a dab of it holding it together. Look at those clean hands. Can you tell that I repair cars??

I read a while back that Super Glue was invented for eye surgery, so ever since then... Opps I cut myself! Dam that's a good one! Oh well, wash an Super Glue it! Tah Dah! 

I use it primarily to reseal cuts on my hands. 

I believe that it's the compound (polymethylmethacrolate-someone correct me if I'm wrong) that is used in surgical skin glue. 
 

We use the stuff labeled for surgical use where I work, but I've seen some practices that use Superglue to close skin. 
 

Don't keep it in the drawer with your eye drops. Seems obvious, but people glue their eye (hopefully just one, but there are a lot of idiots out there) shut with frequency. The treatment is just to wait for a few days, no permanent damage. 

MyMiatas said:

My hands are sooo dry here where I live.  Winter is the worst. I put lotion on but they still are like the Mojave Desert.

I've had the same problem here. This stuff works great:

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

MyMiatas said:

My hands are sooo dry here where I live.  Winter is the worst. I put lotion on but they still are like the Mojave Desert.

I've had the same problem here. This stuff works great:

 

Try Bag Balm.  A container of it will last years & it works wonderfully.

In reply to Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) :

Amazon carries Vetbond. I just keep that around the house and car.

The main 'ingredient' in super glue is cyanoacrylate, but Wikipedia does say some medical versions include PMMA.

Also from wikipedia: it was accidentally discovered in 1942, rediscovered in 1951, and sold commercially by Kodak starting in 1958.  So much for being "invented" or first used by medics in Vietnam or other stuff I've heard/read/believed over the years.

It's great for reattaching shoe soles

M2Pilot said:

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

MyMiatas said:

My hands are sooo dry here where I live.  Winter is the worst. I put lotion on but they still are like the Mojave Desert.

I've had the same problem here. This stuff works great:

 

Try Bag Balm.  A container of it will last years & it works wonderfully.

I use that brand. Most likely not often enough.

I happened across this website today, it's a guide on how to fasten different materials to each other:  https://www.thistothat.com/index.shtml  “Because people have a need to glue things to other things”.

Appleseed said:

I've upgraded to epoxy.  Its super glue for men.

I guess, if "for men" is to mess around with mixing and gloves and applicators and a stopwatch and at least a little mess, but sometimes a big one. 

Super glue is apply, hold, done. In 30 seconds or less.

Super glue is apply, hold, done. In 30 seconds or less. Then epoxy over it to hold the repair together longer. :0)