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WillGeorge
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I would love to hear how you all use CA glues (As in Cyanoacrylate).. when woodworking?
Why, when, how and whatever you can come up with. Good bad?
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I have only one suggestion for the use of CA glues in woodworking - don't use your finger to wipe up the squeeze-out. ;-)
The only "bad day" is the final one, when you fail to wake up.
It makes terrible shampoo!
Bret
I love funNmuch more than most do.. I NEED SERIOUS ANSWERS!
Seriously
I NEED SERIOUS ANSWERS!
Then stop yelling and ask a serious question.
Will
I use superglue to glue those extremely small brass hinges in boxes when those escutchion pins won't do the job.
wot
Will,
I use CA glues for small short-grain chipouts, tenons that split when resizing them and stuff like that. I do NOT use them for any joints or major components.
Frosty
Thanks for the reply...
I mostly use for minor repairs as you posted. I never use for commom woodworking tasks.. Except for inlays and such. I was looking for different uses that apply to our needs.
Or is repair of our tasks 'Common WoodWorking?
As to the other poster that told me my CAPS are yelling.. As my very old grandfather, long passed on into a different place.. He would say.. Pure Bunk! I think he was saying nonsence!
I have no idea where somebody said.. CAPS are yelling? I for one thinks it is 'BUNK'
Season!
Wow, it's spring already?
Touch up and pens
I don't use it much. I use the thick CA for gluing in the pen barrels into the blanks, and I use the thin CA if I need to fill very small gaps in joints, using the CA and sawdust method. I don't know that this would work on contrasting wood, but it's a great cosmetic fix for box joints, dovetails, etc, assuming the underlying joint is good.
I suspect there are some neat tricks out there, but we'll see if anyone admits to them.
Simon
Simon.. I liked the "I
Simon.. I liked the "I suspect there are some neat tricks out there, but we'll see if anyone admits to them."..
I should have used that in my opening post.
I am sure that there are many uses some of us have never thought of.
Veritile CA Galoo
Will,
I use CA mostly for small repairs when I am in a hurry. If I am not in a hurry, I prefer wood glue for wood and epoxy for other materials. Sometimes, I use CA glue on my finger tips to insulate them from heat (seriously), such as when changing hot drill bits.
bank robbers
I use CA glue to stick the tellers hands to the counter top so they can't trip the buzzer. True story, the robber made everyone in the bank lay down and he glued their hands to the floor....
Will, I have heard one poster here use CA glue for a finish, on a shifter knob if I remember correct. Another used it for the finish on some knobs on drawers... have not tried that so I don't condone or deny.
I use it for jigs, to set things quick in place.
CA as a finish
>Will, I have heard one poster here use CA glue for a finish, on a shifter knob if I remember correct.<
Morgan,
So right you are. I've found that CA glue really stand the test of time for high-wear uses. Oils need rejuvenation, turning polishes and lacquer don't last long... I haven't tried polyurethane or epoxy yet.
Chris
I have heard of using CA for a finish but have never tried to do it. It does get very hard and solid so I would assume that it would polish well. Maybe like polishing polycarbonate? It polishes very well if you have the time.
You mentioned using it on your fingers. I have used CA to close a nasty cut that I will often get when working Jatoba. Jatoba will leave a 'knife edge' after cutting it. Not as bad as a TS blade or router bit (Never cut by one) but comes close I would suspect? I close the cut with CA if I do not want to leave the project and finish. It stops the blood in a few seconds... It's also good for a cut in a location that keeps opening up (As a cut near a joint or on the palm of the hand. I 'think' they use it in hospitals sometimes?
It will sound gross but while making a large deck for my sister-in-law my nephew (helper?) threw a old 2X4 with a nail sticking out of it. Well, I was in the way and it hit me in the face, nose to be exact. It ripped out a chunk of my nose. We found the chunk of whatever a nose is made of and washed it off in the kitchen sink. Held it in place and he applied CA to the outside edges of the bleeding cut. It was really bleeding bad... We went back to work and I went to the doctor the next day for a tetanus shot because it was a very long time since I last had one. Maybe 20 years? The nurse had a doctor look at 'our' repair and the doctor just shrugged his shoulders and told me to come back immediately if the skin color of the' repair' changed in any way.
His 'shrug of the shoulders' and the shot cost me $200.00! Anyway, all turned out well and I'm still as ugly as always...
CA as a finish
Will,
CA does dry hard, and everyone seems to have their own technique. I like to apply it on smoothly with a piece of letter paper and let it dry. Then apply two more coats in the same fashion and that's it. No additional sanding or buffing required and the result is a smooth, high-gloss surface.
Yeah, that was a gross story, but I can stomache it.
Was your paper 'calendered paper' OR just plain old paper. I find that Linen cloth works well. Nice linen is hard to find these days.
Paper
Just plain ol' paper, WIll. The kind that white envelopes are made of.
Paper
Chris, envelopes and stationary are made with lots of different fibers, and linen is very common, most nice ones have over 50% linen content. Newsprint is another story...
M
I knew it!
Morgan,
I was thinking, as I hit post, that someone would say just that. Plain white notepaper. That's the best I can do. I'm no paperologist.
I turned new handles for all my files and used CA in the stepped holes I drilled and then tapped in the files. FYI I have found that Gorilla CA glue bottles have some kind of clog buster inside the cap that keeps me from gluing up the tips of the bottles. For the first time I have CA bottles that flow every time. When using reclaimed wood with semi loose knots I tighten them with CA and then fill the cracks with Apoxy black, an epoxy/clay product used in Hollywood to model with. I have used CA when turning bowels to fix soft areas in spalted wood.
swen,
I bet CA in your bowels keeps 'em from moving all right...
Ray
It's not the first time I have done the bowels for bowls thing... I yam teh wirlds wurst spelar. Turning bowels is something that happens after eating bad clams.
One other thing about CA and bowls. During a week long class with turner David Ellsworth he mentioned several times that in some cases CA glue in cracks in bowls can act like a wedge as the bowl expands and contracts with humidity. The very solid CA wedge can split the bowl even more as the wood moves around it. Something to consider when patching and filling with CA.
YES! More ideas about using CA.. Good and bad!
I thought MEL would comment about using CA clues on space craft!
I yam teh wirlds wurst spelar... Then I must be the 'teh wirlds wurst readser'.. I understood!
Everyone knows you don't use CA on space craft, you use duct tape.
That special 22,000 mile an hour tape. Cost more than your allowance, and if you knew how to get it, ... they would kill you.
CA Glue
CA glue is useful for woodcarving you might do, on furniture or otherwise. Putting back the errant piece from the slip of a knife or chisel is corrected quickly with CA and to keep things moving, a spray accellerant can be useful. You will also find a CA solvent product useful for finger cleanup. I have found these products at W_dcr_ft. (don't know if commercial plugs are allowed, so you can fill in the "oo" and "a"...)
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