Really hard to find spray CA clue. I've looked and never seen it. Accelerator, sure.
Earlier this year I had a 12" incision closed with glue (plus several smaller ones). It really works, though this stuff isn't the same as hobby shop CA.
Because it would be ridiculously dangerous. Think about CA mist near your eyes or airways.
I think spray CA is used to lift fingerprints at a crime scene. Never seen it myself but it seems to work.
Any spray would sputter and damage prints. It's fumed.
How does that work? Do you just waft a jar of CA?
Basically. Normally you'd make an airtight(ish) enclosure, and warm up some CA inside of it. The vapors do the rest.
Sounds like a great way to get high!
Until the glue dries, at least
No. Many companies sell it including Mohawk which I had in 3 consistencies. None of it lasts that long once opened and especially if the container is only half full. A Mohawk set might run 30 bucks. I have used the little ($3.49 for 10) HF tubes just as successfully and buy the 8 dollar (2 tubes) china stuff at Amazon. One that does work really well is called Wonderlock Tite Chair. It has additional polymers in it and lasts a bit longer in storage. 3/4 oz costs well over 10 bucks. Very thin and intended to run into wood joints. The polymers cross link and hold joints well if they are still in contact, wood to wood.
It's not model airplane glue. I've never even smelled fumes.
Never tired the polymer stuff, but when building RC things I kept 3 different thicknesses around and some accelerator. Pretty good adhesive.. How you've never managed to smell it is beyond me.. But it's not something you want to smell.
Maybe because you use so little.
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The TV shows show them boiling the glue into a vapor for hard to get surfaces.
The fumes are outright nasty. About as irritating as hydrochloric acid. The curing process is exothermic, so if you use enough CA for a wet area to get hot enough, you'll see some white smoke escape.
If you're only using a little at a time, it stays cold and the smell is negligible. It's worst when I'm soaking a piece of wood through and through with the extra-thin type to harden it. As for polymer, I've got a black flexible CA designed to soak into silk model airplane control surface hinges.
I was this many days old when I learned this existed! Bob Smith has been my favorite CA source for many years now.
The surgical CA is chemically different, not just dyed. The R group on the monomer is different, so it cures more slowly, without burning or irritating tissue. There are also medical grade CA adhesives designed for medical equipment which are chemically similar to hardware store adhesives.
me too,I used it too much and acquired an allergy to the fumes, esters of Cyano'.
try bengay, I applied to my shoulder for bursitus, then I took a whizz and left my apt , I was going downstairs when it felt like nuts roasted on an open fire, ran back upstairs and jumped right in the shower with my clothes on.
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