A real shop safty hazard!!!

[Paul Taylor]

My good friend Jim Lynch has opened his shop to anyone that wants to learn how to build. He scratch builds every kind of plane from plans RC and CL. He has taught me a bunch and now people are coming out of the wood work to his shop to learn the art. RC and CL flyers in our area.

Here's the story. One of the new guys was working on a kit Nobler and some how got CA on the front of his pants. He was at one bench and Jim at another so he had his back to Jim. He thought to himself " I just glued my testicals to my leg. How do I ask Jim for help. He started to panic as he thought about the use of an Xacto blade to get it unglued. Some how he managed on his own. But I was in tears laughing so much as he told this story yesterday.  

You can't make this stuff up.  

[John Stiles]

Good lord I'm laughing hard....I know just exactly how he musta felt. I won't bother to tell ya the story! I need to go wipe my eyes and blow my nose! 

[wwwarbird]

 Hmm. Assuming that he had his pants on, and they were fully zipped, I can't imagine how this particular attachment could have happened. Thank you for not providing us with the webcam footage.

[john e. holliday]

That is better than the story that was printed in RC Modeler right after CA(Hot Stuff) came on the market.   Seems the guy was doing some test gluing of different type woods.  He had set the bottle on the bench.   When he reached for it, it got knock off on the floor.  He stepped back to retrieve it and stepped on the bottle.  Needless to say glue went every where.  With out thinking he grabs a rag and tries to wipe up the glue using his foot.  Said he had a hard time explaining to his wife how his shoe and rag got glued to the floor.   Took a while to type this as I am still laughing over the testical issue.

[KenP51]

I have been in a similar straight. Squirted a bunch of thin Ca on my finger. You know how hot that gets. I instinctively put my finger in my mouth to cool it off. An imediat "OH Sh_T" ralization. I went across the street to our good friend and neighbor. As soon as I TRIED to speak she burst into laughter and fell on the floor just like this little  guy

I wanted to kick her as she

Finger came loose in a few hours.

All in all not as bad as the time I set my head on fire though.

Ken

[Willie Johnson]

We're going to have to discuss this as a safety issue at the next club meeting.

[Jim Kraft]

This is more fun than when Tim Taylor glued his head to a table on Tool Time.

[Curare]

I havent glued my man bits to my leg but I have done something stupid with CA, and those who are smart will take heed.

Ever noticed that most jobs in the workshop require three hands? This was one of those times, hold parts together with one hand, apply glue with the other. Wait, the cap is still on. So being the dexterous person that I am, I used my teeth to pull the cap off. As I got the cap off I must have squeezed the bottle so that I ended up with a mouth full of thin, extremely hot instantly curing CA. I burnt lips, glued my teeth to my lips and my tongue to my teeth.

Thankfully though, there was enough moisture in my mouth that once the CA had cured, I could move my tongue enough, to break up the CA joining my constituent mouth bits and free everything up after about a minute. I was however spitting small bits of cured CA out for the next half hour and spent about a week picking bits off my teeth!

[Paul Taylor]

Hey Ty thats what Jim told him. He was on his own. 

Willie - Jim jokingly said he was going to bring it up to the safety officer.

[Randy Ryan]

OK Confession time. I was working late one night as is my MO. I was wearing an unbuttoned flannel shirt and a pair of sweat pants. I was still using CA right from the bottle before I learned about turkey basters so had the open bottle at the ready. I had reached for a part and put it in place to glue it. I reached for the blue and it was gone! dang it! I was sitting in an old office chair. I got up and looked around, nowhere, I could not find it. Frustrated I sat back down and leaned back in the chair starching and felt a lump in the small of my back quickly followed by a very warm sensation right down the crack of my butt. Yeah, when I leaned the wet tip of the bottle stuck to the tail of my shirt and when I flopped in frustration it got turned upside down and when I leaned back it squirted right down the middle of my back. I glues the pants to me but and my butt cheeks together! Fortunately only at the top. But wait there's more. I had learned by then the acetone will dissolve cured CA. I'll leave this story here, and you  can use your imagination for the rest. Suffice it to say, I invented some very strange dance moves that night.

[pat king]

About 37 years ago when my son was 3. I had a bottle of CA in the living room. Well the little guy got the bottle and managed to get it open. We learned of the problem when he screamed like the Devil had him. He glued one hand to the coffee table and his pants to his leg. It took me about 15 minutes to get his hand free and then his pants off of his leg. Needless to say, his mother wasn't happy!

Pat

[Mike Griffin]

This is why I use Elmers..here's your sign

Mike

[George]

Cut my forefinger in the shop one time. I was able to close the cut with my thumb and middle finger while I CA'd the cut with the other hand, thinking one of the original uses of CA was to close cuts. What I had not anticipated was the heat that comes with that little puff of smoke. After all the cursing and dancing was done, I decided to not EVER do that again.     

George

[Ryan Taylor]

I heard spraying a liberal amount of kicker to the afflicted area helps. Hardyharhar!

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[KenP51]

Cut my forefinger in the shop one time. I was able to close the cut with my thumb and middle finger while I CA'd the cut with the other hand, thinking one of the original uses of CA was to close cuts. What I had not anticipated was the heat that comes with that little puff of smoke. After all the cursing and dancing was done, I decided to not EVER do that again.     

George

Ya just reminded me. I've done just about that.


Sliced a finger so bad I could see bone. A short slice but deep. Hurt like bloody hell it did. But i knew the blade was not very clean and I needed to clean the wound. Alcohol will work. So I held the wound open and poured it on the wound. That was followed by some moaning and turning a bit white. My buddy was with me in the shop, all 6 foot 4 and 350 lbs of him. He was a big guy. He was white as a ghost by then. I told him to sit down before he fell down. He was a bit wobbly also. I was trying to hold the end of my finger together but it was bleeding like a stuck pig. and I was putting a wing together. So I grabbed a bottle of CA, the thin stuff. Dried the wound as best it would, and squirted a goodly amount on the wound. Yep smoke, no longer moaning in pain, but rather much more vocal cussed some (I had a dirty mouth back then). Heard a thud. It was my buddies head hitting the work table, he was just as white as could be.

But ya know it worked pretty good. I had a pre scheduled doctors appointment for a few days later, so I told him what I did. He chewed me out pretty good. Yea CA may have been invented for that purpose but the stuff they used was at least sterile.

Ken

[55chevr]

I jammed my finger in a skid steer door and it split open. I pulled the finger cut closed with a couple of steri-strips.  Still bleeding so I used CA to close the wound.  It worked but it did smart rightly for a few seconds.

[Lauri Malila]

 Also, avoid opening a CA bottle near a high precision lathe. Trust me, I know. L

[john e. holliday]

When flying F2C with Wright & Dunkin we had to put Bill Wright's finger cut back together.  Bob Hill who is now gone and missed had a bottle of Hot Stuff.   Thought Bill was going to kill him until the burning quit.   This also reminds me of the time the guy just repainted his bath room appliances with epoxy paint.   The stuff was just about cured when his wife came home and went to use the commode.   How do you explain that in the emergency room.

[Randy Ryan]

Guys, CA/ACC was NOT invented for the purpose of sealing wounds and the stuff used in Nam is an entirely different formula. It was created by accident in WW2 as a liquid lens for anti aircraft gun sights. When the scientist went to open the lens , he couldn't, thus a super glue was accidently created.  There was a long story about glues on the History Channel called Modern Wonders.
Here's another good one for you, during the design phase of the gun type atomic bomb, a very low friction material was needed for the uranium half to speed as fast as possible to the other half in order to go bang. Thus Teflon was created. Who knew? 

And that became Eastman 910 and was used for attaching strain gauges and such.

[Dick Pacini]

The first time I ever used CA was when I was assembling a P40 ARF.  I was working on the wing joint and thought if I held the wing vertically, I could get more glue in the joint.  I applied the CA to the wing/fuselage joint and it kept taking it.  I did not realize for a few seconds that it was running out of the joint and along the wing on the other side where I was holding it.  I glued three of my fingers together and most of my hand to the wing.  I was able to pull my hand free but it hurt like hell because some skin was left behind.  I used an Exacto knife to separate my fingers and then washed my hands with acetone.

Needless to say, the plastic covering on the plane looked like hell with my hand print on the wing.  Should the plane ever get stolen, it will be easy to trace because my DNA is on it...

[John Leidle]

  What's his nick name ? Ol Steady Hand?? Wow !

[Dennis Saydak]

When using CA you should always put a nitril glove over your privates especially if you work sans pants.  The gloves come in different sizes. They don't call it Hot Stuff for nothing. Problem solved! 

[Brett Buck]

When using CA you should always put a nitril glove over your privates especially if you work sans pants.  The gloves come in different sizes.

  Hopefully, "Extra Large", "Colossal", and "Unbelievable".

     Brett

[Zuriel Armstrong]

 " I just glued my testicals to my leg.

This is going to make a wing over tough to perform

[Greg Hart]

I know someone that spilled a whole bottle of CA and quickly wadded a hand full of paper towels and wiped it up, It started smoking then went into flames.

[wwwarbird]

This is going to make a wing over tough to perform

[John Stiles]

My incident happened because like a dummy, I put the CA bottle in my right front pocket. When I started feeling kinda wadded up, my first reaction was to jam my right hand in there to get the bottle out ...I wound up doing emergency surgery left-handed with my pants un-zipped and everybody rolling on the ground laughing. I still crack up everytime I see their helpless faces as they attempted to give me moral support!  

[KenP51]

Moral support!  John. I would have given you the same kind of support I received I would have ROTFLMAO

Ken

[John Stiles]

Moral support!  John. I would have given you the same kind of support I received I would have ROTFLMAO

Ken

You woulda really cracked up when you saw my hand after I carved it out of the pocket hole...ROFL....real cool lookin fingernails too...all blue and fuzzy! The rest of the story is not ready for prime time!

[KenP51]

You woulda really cracked up when you saw my hand after I carved it out of the pocket hole...ROFL....real cool lookin fingernails too...all blue and fuzzy! The rest of the story is not ready for prime time!

Sounds like there might have been some similarity to the first time I caught myself on fire HB~>That story is not for prime time either.   LL~I got no support, and no help when I had flaming parts

Ken

[David Hoover]

Sounds like there might have been some similarity to the first time I caught myself on fire

You mean you've caught yourself on fire more than once??!!

[Steve Fitton]

This thread reads like an episode of Beavis and Butthead...

[KenP51]

You mean you've caught yourself on fire more than once??!!

TWICE

Ken

[Al Rabe]

I'm surprised that there has been no mention of using nitro to soften or remove CA.  I have nitro left over from the old days when I used to mix fuel.  I keep a baby food bottle of the stuff on my work table.  Now I use the stuff to clean fingers, undo CA wood joints, clean CA off of wood, and unglue my running shoes from the floor under my work bench.

I think that Sig might have sold the stuff and called it "debonder" since it certainly could.

Al

[John Stiles]

I'm surprised that there has been no mention of using nitro to soften or remove CA.  I have nitro left over from the old days when I used to mix fuel.  I keep a baby food bottle of the stuff on my work table.  Now I use the stuff to clean fingers, undo CA wood joints, clean CA off of wood, and unglue my running shoes from the floor under my work bench.

Al

Ahhh....so now it comes out. How well does that work on sensitive parts? Did someone mention catching one's....self...on fire? 

[Phil Krankowski]

I can tell you from experience that using Sig Champion 25% to remove CA glue from a table it works well.  It also works good for unglueing fingers stuck together. 

I can also tell you Sig Champion 25% strips the varnish and stain right out of the wood too.

I can also tell you that washing with dish soap and water at least 3x with rinse rags in between will remove that particular "castor oil" smell from said table.

I can also tell you that if this happens to the dining room table my wife becomes plain mean.  I am surprised I am here to tell the tale, and wasn't murdered. 

Phil

[Scott B. Riese]

Howard!!!!!!!

He glued his nose to the building table..........

[KenP51]

Howard!!!!!!!

He glued his nose to the building table..........

Was he in need of new glasses and was trying to see real close up? Should he have had CA on his lips afterwards so no censored words escaped?


Ken

[mike londke]

In my teens and early twenties I played bass guitar in a Metal band. My plucking fingers would get so raw I would pour Hot Stuff on them to seal them up.  Dad was a modeler so I always had a supply.  Mike

[Shultzie]

Good lord I'm laughing hard....I know just exactly how he musta felt. I won't bother to tell ya the story! I need to go wipe my eyes and blow my nose!  

Uh! After reading this=====
  I once glued my bugga finger to my nose!

[Peter Grabenstein]

This thread reads like an episode of Beavis and Butthead...

Close...., allmost....
to my memory,
Charly Harper-Sheen from Malibu  got CA glued his balls right to his tighs by his lovely neighbour
Lady-insane"Rose" (one of his exés).
 

[Phil Krankowski]

Close...., allmost....
to my memory,
Charly Harper-Sheen from Malibu  got CA glued his balls right to his tighs by his lovely neighbour
Lady-insane"Rose" (one of his exés).
 

THAT reads like Jerry Springer!