Superglue versus super glue gel

[Stormin Mormon]

Don't give me orders. Only future wife can do that.

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[rbowman]

Go to a hobby shop. I've had good luck with Jet and HotStuff:

There is a large selection of variants rather than the 1/8 ounce tube of unknown provenance at the hardware store. R/C modellers tend to get very pissed if their toys fall apart.

[hrhofmann]

Back to the original question, the gel is very useful on vertical surfaces where the regular glue would just run down and stick to undesired surfaces.

[Frank]

Gorilla glue with me has lasted longer than super glue but it is a poly isocyanate and may not last as long as epoxy. Moisture causes polymerization and they sell it in an HDPE squeeze bottle which is one of the worst plastics they could use as moisture will permeate it. Brand is confusing in recent years as they sell other glues under the Gorilla label.

I don't see an expiration date on my bottle of Gorilla glue but I'd guess that even an unopened bottle would harden within a few years.

Two part epoxies can last for decades.

[Stormin Mormon]

First, I'm not sure that's permitted on Usenet.

But, thank you in any case.

[micky]

I'll take a look. I go to a hobby shop to buy ambroid cement. Great stuff.

[rbowman]

Patching your canoe? I haven't used it in ages but I always like the smell. Of course that was probably a blend of 57 carcinogenic hydrocarbons that was dissolving my brain.

[micky]

It can do that too!?

Yeah, I like the smell too. Nothing that can make one high, I think, before the lurkers go get some to sniiff it.

I figure it was just amber, or one ingredient,

I'm not sure we're talking about the same stuff. Yours is called ambroid glue and mentions canoes. Mine is ambroid cement, but the logo is the same: Ambroid in an oval, with an eagle atop the oval.

Mine is good because it dries very quickly, doesn't require mixing, won't bend but sticks to almost anything, holds firm but not so firm the two parts can't be broken apart when one wants to.

It never dires out in the tube if the cap is on. Originally, I bought two large tubes at the hardware store in downtown Brooklyn, Myrtle and something. They were all beat up, lots of dents. They had two cases of about 24 tubes each, all of htem beat up. I bought two big tubes and finished the second tube about 20 years later, still good as new.

When I went to the hobby store, it was expensive, so since I haven't been gluing so much lately, I only bought a small tube, but it's the same stuff, just as good.

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