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I didn't even think of it, John! I do think it's a good idea. Now, I wonder who the distributor is in Russia?

Sheena, do you call it "Gulag Glue" (Stuck for Life!) over there?

HAR!!

Thanks Paul, you always seem to have the cure.

Just one more point, since I've read David R.'s post--the fogging which CA causes on materials, which is most often noticed on transparent and dark-colored surfaces, most certainly does NOT go "all the way through the material". It can easily be polished off most surfaces with a bit of polishing compound.

Most of us are aware of the use of CA fumes in forensic work, bringing up fingerprints on materials. Many larger police departments around the world will "tent" a vehicle with plastic and lay in pans of heated CA to "fume" prints. The CA fumes will cause the prints to accumulate the white fog residue on the sweat, oils, and acids left by the friction ridges that comprise fingerprints.

This was discovered quite by accident and has contributed much to the science of forensics.

Oh. Gorilla glue - what's that? Never met it.
Paul: no we don't call it "Gulag glue", in fact, but i think i have to bring this term here cause it's the most popular 'cure' for broken guitars here. I'll bring a photo in a couple of days (have to find a camera somewhere!)
Actually it was broken and repaired 6 years ago but stayed together well for all these years, the problem has appeared recently.

Paul: As we are picking apart this glue with surgical precision, can you speak to the orgins of CA.

Was it designed to glue skin, which is does very well, or was this discovered by accident and then used to good advantage in repairing wounds in Emergency Rooms.

It would certainly seem that many things can be doctored with this glue.

I first came into contact with it (literally) in the mid-70s in the car audio industry, Peter. Our service technicians used it to repair cracked circuit boards and lock trim pots in place - much better than nail polish but more than twenty times the cost!

At that time it was simply called 'Cyanoacrylate' - no brand name that I can recall.

Very humorous Howard. Close encounters of the Cyanoacrylate kind.

Superglue's beginnings go back, as much modern plastic history does, to WWII. Chemists employed by Kodak were working on wartime applications problems--bomber windows and canopies, in this case. Cyanoacrylate was tested at the time, but it was too sticky for this use, so it was rejected. (Did they consider that sticky=good glue? Nope.)

Sometime around 1960, it began to be used for gluing lenses together at Kodak, because of its superior clarity. Took 'em awhile, apparently. It was soon packaged and marketed under the Eastman 910 name. The formula was copied and modified by a number of different chemists and in about 1970, Krazy Glue--the consumer-priced version, was made available. Soon, 7-11s were invented and each one of them came with a rack of Krazy glue near the doorway.

Its use in gluing wounds together is once again traceable to wartime--this time to Vietnam, in the early 1970s, where it came into use in gluing together humans instead of lenses.

The Satellite City company in Southern California, took its name from the fact that it was the formulator and supplier of the CA glue used to secure the ceramic tiles to the Space Shuttle's belly. This is one critical part of that aeronautical flying pork barrel that does work.

Thanks for the skinny on the history of CA Paul.

You are all quite welcome!

As an aside, relative to Aitch's post above. CA works very well to repair phenolic (brown) circuit boards but does not work well on fiberglass (green or white) ones, which is what most are these days, at least in quality equipment...

Here it is, my poor little one. The picture is small, but the scratches might be seen, BTW, can anybody give an advice how could these ugly scratches be hidden so that it could look more presentable?

Sheena, I can see scratches in the shading around the edges of the guitar--are those the ones you mean?

They can be covered up with a bit of airbrushing. Know anybody with an airbrush or small spray gun?

BTW a few months ago, a man in China mistook a bottle of superglue for eye drops...
ouch!