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You dozy git

just bought a pkt of £4 Araldite Rapid glue,got a stanly knife to cut open the heat sealed packaging...anyone guess what happened next?

No I never cut myself.

Reply to
George
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4 half tubes of glue?

What do I win?

All the best ..

T i m

Reply to
T i m

I rather liked the stuff in two syringes - is it still available?

Now if it was superglue you could use that on the cut. ;-)

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

Half a Blue Peter badge.

The blade slipped and went the full lenght of one of the tubes. :-( will masking tape round the tube stop it from going solid? it being a two part expoxy.

Reply to
George

Yes,but the place I got this did na have any.

Reply to
George

You applied it to the job and found it never really set?

Regards,

Reply to
Stephen Howard

Not as bad as me! My daughter had this tube of superglue with a free bottle of gel. This dozy git thought this gel was super glue remover! Three hours later I managed to pry my fingers apart. Next time read the instructions!

Reply to
chudford

Yes. For a while.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

In message , George writes

You got abducted by aliens ?

Reply to
geoff

Back in the 1950s, two new products that happened to appear at the same time - and both sold in a tube - were Deep Heat Fast Relief Rub; and Evo-Stik. You're already ahead of me...

Reply to
Ian White

Silly sod. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

Reply to
T i m

And around 60 years on, Evo-Stik is about as efficient a glue as Deep Heat. There's progress for ya...

Regards,

Reply to
Stephen Howard

In front of me I keep a tiny bottle of superglue and a similarly small bottle of 'Vital Eyes' soother for contact lens users. I make a point of double checking before I use either...

Reply to
Frank Erskine

Well, whilst I can't say I've tried Deep Heat as an adhesive I will say I've used Evo-Stick with great success on one application in particular.

When making up battery packs for RC Model racing cars I lay the cells out in whatever format is required then run Evo-Stick between them. When set(ish) I turn the pack over and repeat on the reverse. I might apply that a couple of times and when finished (and cured for a couple of days) you have a pack that will generally tear the outer wrap off the cells before the glue will give up. Some folk use Super Glue (as it cures faster) but it is very rigid and offers no give when yer car goes from 35 mph to 0 mph against an immovable object (wall, table, marshals foot etc). :-(

You are reminded how well it sticks if/when you try to split the pack up again later.

Apart from that, no, I don't use Evo-Stick for much these days. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

Reply to
T i m

Have you tried hot melt? That's what I use for this sort of thing - no waiting for it to dry.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

I recall reading about one in the local paper some years back. Someone bought a pair of airosol cans on offer and shrinkwrapped together. She used a knife to separate them, which punctured one of the cans, which exploded apart once punctured. The butane propellant caught light, burning off her hair.

Reply to
Andrew Gabriel

I recall 'Cossack' deodorant in the mid 60's being in an aerosol can that looked exactly like my mums hair spray...

Reply to
The Medway Handyman

Deodorant on your hair wouldn't have done you any harm ...

Owain

Reply to
Owain

Isn't that really sad. You're obviously a professional user of adhesives (glue!), who has used it satisfactorily for decades. Once again 'we' (as English/British/'Europeans') are forbidden to practice our crafts purely because of the whims of politicians who take notice solely of lawyer-types (usually French or thereabouts) who seem to run the whole show.

It's exactly the same with 'lead-free' solder (and paint), creosote and so on.

I agree entirely with you about 'new' Evo-Stik. It seems little more effective than Gloy paste (and more difficult to use).

Empty toothpaste tubes?

Will the Irish place supply you with empty tubes? If so, and you have a facility to fill 'em there's a business opportunity, if you can source more from Ebay...

I wonder if it might be possible to get much the same stuff from a non-EU country (although HMR&C might raise an objection to importing anything useful and effective).

;-)

Reply to
Frank Erskine

I guess I'm what you'd call a 'Professional user' of the stuff - for the last 30 odd years I've been glueing small bits of cork and felt to various woodwind instruments with Evo-Stik - it used to be the perfect glue; reasonably easy to apply, readily available, quick to set and very tenacious. From stripping an existing piece of cork to cutting a new one and sticking it in place ready to be cut or sanded would take barely a minute or so - but when they shifted over to the 'new, improved' formula I began to have failures all over the place. Corks would rip off during sanding or move when being cut - and no amount of technique modification would result in as reliable a job as the old formula gave me.

I got so teed off by it that I rang up Evo-Stik in a fit of indignation the other day and told their tech. dept. rep. that their new glue was 'rubbish'. It's all down to the Toluene. It's not there any more, they had to remove it due to - and so 'New, faster drying formula' actually means 'It's not as good any more'. So I did the only thing left open to me - got on Ebay and bought as many tins of the old stuff as I could. I got 18. All I really need to do now is source some squeezable ali tubes to decant the stuff into - but it seems that the only place you can get them from these days is the place in Ireland that makes them for...Evo-Stik!

Regards,

Reply to
Stephen Howard

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