Comments on: Cyanoacrylate/Superglue (Seals wounds and holds helmets to girders!) http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/12/cyanoacrylatesuperglue-seals-wounds-and-holds-helmets-to-girders/ Molecules: You'd Better Learn to Live With Them Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:11:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Dr. Doug http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/12/cyanoacrylatesuperglue-seals-wounds-and-holds-helmets-to-girders/#comment-286 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:02:26 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/12/cyanoacrylatesuperglue-seals-wounds-and-holds-helmets-to-girders/#comment-286 I once lost a cassette tape that I loved in a car cassette player. ("cassettes" were like .mp3 files, only much bigger.) You would put a tape in the player horizontally, and press "play" and then it would go IN and then DOWN and then play. You would press eject and... well, and nothing happened. Your precious tape was stuck DOWN and IN. I couldn't get it out, although by snaking my fingers through the mechanisim I could TOUCH it. That was maddening. So I put a whole bunch of superglue (we called it "crazy glue" then... it was the wacky late 80s) on my fingers and crazy-glued my fingers to the tape, figuring I would not leave the car without the tape. The hair-brained idea worked perfectly. I was able to lift the tape UP and then OUT, and then tore my fingers off of the tape with only moderate pain. I once lost a cassette tape that I loved in a car cassette player. (”cassettes” were like .mp3 files, only much bigger.) You would put a tape in the player horizontally, and press “play” and then it would go IN and then DOWN and then play. You would press eject and…

well, and nothing happened. Your precious tape was stuck DOWN and IN.

I couldn’t get it out, although by snaking my fingers through the mechanisim I could TOUCH it. That was maddening. So I put a whole bunch of superglue (we called it “crazy glue” then… it was the wacky late 80s) on my fingers and crazy-glued my fingers to the tape, figuring I would not leave the car without the tape.

The hair-brained idea worked perfectly. I was able to lift the tape UP and then OUT, and then tore my fingers off of the tape with only moderate pain.

]]> by: Adam http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/12/cyanoacrylatesuperglue-seals-wounds-and-holds-helmets-to-girders/#comment-105 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:26:28 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/06/12/cyanoacrylatesuperglue-seals-wounds-and-holds-helmets-to-girders/#comment-105 I always thought regular CA glues weren't used for surgery because they degraded in the body, giving off something nasty like formaldehyde. Also, <a href="http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msuperglue.html" rel="nofollow">this Straight Dope article</a> might be of interest. I always thought regular CA glues weren’t used for surgery because they degraded in the body, giving off something nasty like formaldehyde. Also, this Straight Dope article might be of interest.

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