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I keep mine in the freezer lasts for about two years
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Make sure your kicker is stored away from the CA. The worst is to have CA and kicker together in one of those nice looking glue caddies.
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Keep it in the fridge ... in a glass jar for safety. Slow or gap filling CA seems worst for this in my experience.
Cheers
Mike
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I keep mine in a sealed container with desiccant. Works great.
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Great discussion. So the little bottle stored in my freezer now will soon be surrounded by a tightly sealed glass jar also containing a few of those silica gel packets. Maybe overkill, but easy enough to do.
Thanks!
Dave Mo...
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I have had a couple of bottles of slow cure (I Use JB Super because I can get it at Walmart) thicken up on me but I have never had the thin stuff do it. I buy the small bottles and don't buy more till I need it. If it gets thick I just throw it away. Our refrigerator is off limits ever since my wife found a set of batteries in the vegetable drawer (hey it was empty so I didn't see the problem).
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Hi
KlassKote 2K (mixed) keeps well for a couple of days in the fridge. Oracolor 2K not so good.
I too am now banned from using the fridge except for CA glues :)
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I only buy one ounce bottles of both thin and gap filling. I buy two or three at a time and keep the unopened ones in the freezer. I date them when I get them with a sharpie so I can track the use. I only use BSI adhesives.
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This is going to sound like a tall tale but I had new stock CA in the freezer and forgotten for about 8 years. Pulled it out and let it come to room temperature and it worked and I did some testing on the strength of the bond and it was really great. It was Balsa USA brand and it has always been one of my preferred CA glues. Incidentally I don't have a refrigerator/Freezer police person watching what is in the Refrigerator.
Hint. Wrap your glue in aluminum foil for storage. Just don't wrap it so it looks like an ice pack or you just might forget that you have it in there.
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This is going to sound like a tall tale but I had new stock CA in the freezer and forgotten for about 8 years. Pulled it out and let it come to room temperature and it worked and I did some testing on the strength of the bond and it was really great. It was Balsa USA brand and it has always been one of my preferred CA glues. Incidentally I don't have a refrigerator/Freezer police person watching what is in the Refrigerator.
Hint. Wrap your glue in aluminum foil for storage. Just don't wrap it so it looks like an ice pack or you just might forget that you have it in there.
Freezer police are on to that one. n1
Ken
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Sun light? Or understabilised compound.
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My basement is about 57F so feels like a freezer. Could a 2oz bottle harden faster than a 1oz?
Think about what you just said and you answered your own question. The glue gets hard because it is reacting. The more volume you have the quicker it reacts. Moisture is part of what sets off CA glue. I never tried it, but I read somewhere once that if you needed kicker and were out of it, you could substitute a saline solution in a fine pump sprayer. Keep your glue away form the kicker when not in use. Once it's open it may not help to put it back in the freezer. As the air in the bottle chills and contracts, it can suck in moisture so it needs to be air tight. I don't get to build as much as I would like and have wasted so much over the years, I have gone to using the small tubes from harbor Freight. They seem to last forever even if not in a freezer and if you don't use one up before it gets hard, you haven't lost much. But that rarely seems to happen, and I think it may be different from the hobby brand of CA glues.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee