Safety with CA (aka superglue)

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randyrls

randyrls

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I am madly making pen blanks for the upcoming Woodcraft "Turn for the Troops"! I now have enough blanks for 90 pens made. Some of these will be for the PA Farm Show in January.

I only make 4-7 pens at a time normally but last Monday my ventilation failed me and I had a reaction to the CA. I was gluing up 30 sets of blanks and started coughing up my lungs. I have used almost all of a 2oz CA bottle. Better now but I will be more careful in the future!

PS. I keep my CA bottles in a plastic bucket because a split bottle cascading CA down over your shelves is not fun to clean up.
 
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If it doesn't bother you, use a respirator mask when working with CA. I have had to use the respirator mask (with filters) since 2007 or 2008. It didn't take long to get used to wearing it - after the 3rd reaction.

Thank you for the worthy cause, but take care of yourself too.
 
I had similar problems and switched to odorless BSI Super gold 12 years ago and never had another problem.

Also switched to craft foam Instead of the paper product towels so there is no heat and heated fumes. It doesn't absorb the CA so all of it ends up on the blank.
 
wouldentu2? said:
I had similar problems and switched to odorless BSI Super gold 12 years ago and never had another problem.

Also switched to craft foam Instead of the paper product towels so there is no heat and heated fumes. It doesn't absorb the CA so all of it ends up on the blank.
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now craft foam is a new one to me, thanks for that.

I've used polythene and often the finger of my blue nitrile gloves before ( with great care cos when it sticks it's embarrassing)

PS acetone removes superglue or rather turns it to toffee like consistency but I wouldn't fancy trying to clean down shelves !
 
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