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Just starting tonight my ca finish refuses to cure it turns into a gooy mess?

this is on two different woods and paper towels, but not on my fingers?

tried CA, ca blo, ca with accelerant, ca water, the wood is an unknow white hard wood and a maple, the paper towel is blue shop, also won't harden on the lathe bed or work bench top. this is with a 10 min wait time on medium and thin ca ...

most of the time when I see CA go bad it is over time not over night, and it turns rock hard in the bottle.
 
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I'm thinking of just buying the one ounce bottles from now on. They're more expensive than the two ounce bottles but throwing one or one and a half ounces away every few weeks doesn't seem very economical either![:(] Well maybe not that frequently but I'm sure I throw away more than I get to use!!! FWIW.........[B)]
 
Tracy,

I don't understand why, but ever since I started discarding the lid when I opened a bottle of CA, I have not had any problems. I don't do much in the way of CA finishes, so a 2 ounce bottle of thin lasts me for a long time.
 
My son and I have been using CA for many years in hobby work and we finally figured out why we were getting a short shelf life when using it. Over the past year we started using accelerant heavier than we normally did and when doing so, the open bottles of CA seem to absorb a small portion which ruined the remaining bottle's contents.

Capping the CA and, in our case, stepping out the door to spray the accelerant has eliminated early deterioration of the CA.

Another small tip, keeping a small baby food jar (I'm an ole timer here) filled with acetone and periodically dropping the CA's top into it for an overnight stay will dissolve the old CA and make it new again. Of course you need to have 2 tops for this to work [:p]
 
I'm sure a lot of you already use this but for those of you who don't this is a great little investment. They are called cherry pickers. They not only replace the cap which usually has to be thrown out after a while anyway, but they have a thin rod that goes through the tip that keeps it from clogging. The tip fits under the "cherry" and forms a seal.


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I know it sounds weird, but try leaving the cap off. I used the cherry pickers, tried faithfully recapping, but I get the best results by never recapping the bottle of glue. I don't use much accelerator, so maybe that is part of it, but the glue does not set up and works well to the last drop.
 
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