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Never toss an opened cheap tube of Super Glue in your toolbox


Pat Riot

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Yesterday I needed my favorite little screwdriver to help me line up the trigger assembly in my Ruger 10/22.

I opened the drawer, saw it next to tube of super glue, grabbed it and it was stuck to the liner mat… Ras-n-frassen gol-derned smash a blaster cuss alot mumbley rankings…

 

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Now I have a permanent foam rubber thingie stuck to my favorite little screwdriver. 
And I should’ve known better, I did something similar a few years ago. 
99 cent store super glue and good tools should never be in the same drawer. :angry::blink::lol:

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4 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Superglue melts around 147°F

I wonder what the melting point is on my screwdriver handle?

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We had green loctite at work, it was for assembled bolts. High strength, you would assemble the tool adjust to suit and put a drop of this loctite on the bolts, it would "wick" through the assembled bolt and lock them up solid. Great stuff, but why a coworker would but a bottle in his tool box is beyond me. Bottle leaked and it wicked into one of his micrometers and locked it up solid.

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Super glue can be removed from glass, countertops, tile, and other hard surfaces with rubbing alcohol. Pour enough alcohol to cover the glue spot and let it sit for 5-10 minutes. It will loosen the glue's grip on the surface and allow you to scrape it off.

 

My favorite is WD-40. . . it will not hurt the tool handle.

 It's even safe to use on wood surfaces. WD-40 can also loosen the hold of strong adhesives such as super glue.

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I hate super glue! If I do use it I throw it away after one use. I use it occasionally to glue ivory keytops back on old pianos. I prefer epoxy myself, the old kind that you mix or DUCO cement usually works for lots of things! 

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21 minutes ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:

I keep opened tubes of superglue in a emptied prescription pill bottle. 

Yep.

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How did I learn that superglue melts at 147°?  I took some wood turning classes with Beth Ireland. In one of those classes she demonstrated making bowls from cut pieces of various woods. Such bowls require a lot of sanding.  Too aggressive and the bowl dangerously flies apart.

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9 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

I’m sure it’s higher than boiling water but then it’s not my screwdriver.

 

 

Duh…for some reason I read 147 C, not F. 
Why? No idea…I must have mentally reverted back to my days in the Aerospace R&D lab. Weird. 
 

I am going to put some water on and try it out. Thank you. 

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What’s funny is I always toss the cheap super glue tubes after on use. I am not sure why I put that one in the drawer. 
 

This is the only super glue I can actually reuse numerous times and it doesn’t harden up in the tip. It stays upright to. 
 

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Good stuff. 
 

I only buy the cheap 3 pack tubes from Harbor Freight for just over a buck for quick jobs. And gluing small screwdrivers to the mat and the tube, apparently. 

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Howdy,

Some nail polish remover is 100% acetone.

Good for dissolving superglue.

Be careful as the superglue can reharden.

When I use superglue I first find the remover and make sure

there is plenty in the bottle. 

Best

CR

 

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