CA failing?????

[TonyBal]

How can just the tiniest drop of CA permanently (not really, my wife eventually finds me in the garage & hands me the acetone) glue me to my work piece, yet I hear of this stuff failing from time to time. I have never had it fail on me. Just curious. Am I missing something? P.S. I only use Hot Stuff brand. Is that why?

 

[Andrew_K99]

My guess is that it isn't the CA failing, but the surface failing. Like any adhesive if the surface is dirty, dusty or oily the bond won't be good.

If you're having CA failures I'd check one of the above causes as it's most likely that or you've got a bad batch (which I have never heard of).

AK

 

[Monty]

If by fail, you are referring to a blank exploding while turning, I've found that in most cases, there was no glue between the tube ad blank at those points.

 

[TonyBal]

If by fail, you are referring to a blank exploding while turning, I've found that in most cases, there was no glue between the tube ad blank at those points.

I always "assumed" it meant that the brass tubes would move, meaning that they were no longer glued in at some point in the life of the pen. I hadn't considered that scenario. Good point. :biggrin: