[sdiy] Re: clear super glue

[Paul Higgins]

Yes, the bottle here on my bench says "NCF Mild".  I don't know what's 
"mild" about it, it smells fairly nasty, but it's billed as a "non-CFC" 
accelerator.  I didn't know that the accelerator used to have CFCs in 
it, but anyway, that's the stuff.  It causes the resin to set almost 
instantly, it hardens in about a second.

I should mention that you need to keep the super glue bottle far away 
from the accelerator bottle.  The fumes from the accelerator will cause 
the super glue to set up inside the bottle and you'll end up wasting 
$12 on a bottle of glue.  (The glue eventually sets up anyway once it's 
opened; cyanoacrylate supposedly hardens by using water vapor in the 
air as a catalyst).  That's the only thing I don't like about the 
product; the bottles are too big and you end up with a rock-hard mass 
of plastic in the bottle before you've used it all up.  I wish they 
made half-size bottles of the stuff.

-PRH

On Tuesday, October 19, 2004, at 05:36 PM, john mahoney wrote:

>> ... BTW, the super-glue system is made by the
>> Satellite City company.  It is a little bit expensive,
>> though ($12/bottle or so).
>
> I guess the accellerator you use is NCF?
> http://www.caglue.com/products.html