Bet You Can't Do This!

[Brian Massey]

Emptied my flight box today to clean up a little ca spill.  Broke the box trying to pry the Hot Rock off the bottom . Gotta find a better way to keep the stuff in the box. 

Brian

[Steve Helmick]

Put your handles and lines in quart Ziplock freezer bags, keep the CA in a sammich bag, the hotdogs in a pint freezer bag, and the squeeze bottle of spicey brown mustard can go in as-is.  Steve

[Brad Smith]

I have set my flight box on fire once at Brodaks. Trying to start an old FOX 35.

[Clint Ormosen]

I have set my flight box on fire once at Brodaks. Trying to start an old FOX 35.

Now that takes talent! Winner!

[Brian Massey]

Put your handles and lines in quart Ziplock freezer bags, keep the CA in a sammich bag, the hotdogs in a pint freezer bag, and the squeeze bottle of spicey brown mustard can go in as-is.  Steve

But Boss, Da Buns, Da Buns! Where do I keep Da Buns! 

Brian

[greg maclachlan]

As with any and all glues, they stick the best when you don't want them to.......
Merry Christmas everyone!!

[Dan McEntee]

  As a major peanut butter consumer, I often look for uses for the empty jars, which are now made of plastic. (I prefer Peter Pan Krunchy ). I read somewhere here on the internet, the best way to store instant glue once it is open, is put the bottle in a closed jar with some calcium chloride (ice melt). I put about an inch of ice melt in the bottom of the jar, and keep both thin and thick CA glue in there, and have another jar for the 15 minute epoxy and the Zip Kicker for the CA glue. DON'T EVER PUT ACCELERATOR IN THE SAME CLOSED JAR AS THE CA BOTTLES!!!!  All you will have is a solid lump in the bottles from the kicker fumes setting off the glue. The ice melt absorbs moister, and the lid keeps out excess air, so this increases the shelf life of the glue immensely, and contains the glue in the event of a spill. The jar does the same thing for the epoxy. The jars stand upright nicely by themselves, and pack conveniently in tool boxes or bins in need be. I haven't had to clean up a mess like this in years, or had any glue go bad on me unexpectedly.
   Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All!
   Dan McEntee

[BillLee]

Warning! War Story Time! 

Son and I drove to the Reno NATS in 1984. I had a black Mitsubishi Starion at the time. Nice turbocharged 4-cylinder semi-hot rod car. Mitsu's answer to the Datsun Z and the Toyota whatever (Celica?).

Had one of the large green Plano tool boxes, and as is my habit, all the tools ended up loose in the bottom. Along with a large bottle of thin CA. A FULL large bottle of thin CA!

One day at the NATs I went to the car and opened the hatch to get the tool box. Remember now, Reno is hot and dry in July! The fumes that came out of the car just about knocked me down! The bottle of CA inside the box inside the black car in  100 degree Reno temperatures. Blew up!

Every tool I had was now encased in slowly congealing CA! Not hard yet, but what a sticky, gooey mess! The next 2 hours was spent wiping as much off as I could, peeling tools off the bottom of the box, separating screwdrivers from pliers from ..... Had to go into the local K-Mart and buy a new box. 

Also found out that the plastic handles on screw drivers will dissolve when you hit them with acetone or nitro (CA solvents). 

I was peeling dried CA off of tools for years after! I think there are still a couple of screwdrivers in the shop that show the result!

What a mess!

Bill

[Wayne Collier]

You guy's stories make the day I CAed my finger to a board seem like a non event.  My son was still at home at the time and saw it. I remenmber strongly cautioning him that he did not need to tell his mom about it. 

[Marvin Denny]

  Anyone here ever heard of a product called "Adhesive, General Purpose"  or, as most of us military people called it, Rubber-to-Metal" cement?  Most of us GIs always carried a small (quart) container of it in our cars for emergency repairs.
  I was driving a 1940 Lincoln Zepher convertable  (Man what a girl lure) and the spare tire was stored beneath the  trunk floor, and my trusty stash of "adhesive in he center of the spare tire rim.  All hidden from view.  Some how the can sprung a leak and that quart of adhesive leaked out all under the spare tire.  When I went to get the tire out--- uh-uh  nope--wouldn't budge.  We (me and most of my buddies) tried every known method to get that spare out!1  NO LUCK.  I drove the Lincoln home where my father had a large barn with a chain hoist overhead for lifting BIG tractors. We pulled the Lincoln under the hoist and removed the trunk lid.  We hooked the chain hoist hook to the center of the spare tire dim and started lifting!!!   We lifted that lincoln up until all that was touching the ground was the front bumper.  Spare tire never budged.
  We let it back down and put the deck lid back on.  When I sold the car I told the buyer that the spare tire was "under there" and told him that I had never had it out (no lie).  I shipped out a short time later, so I never heard from him.
   That was GOOD stuff that Adhesive, general purpose.

  Bigiron

[Will Hinton]

You just made my Christmas eve, Bigiron!

[john e. holliday]

Always one just a little better.   Bet Bigiron wishes he more of that cement.