HARRY COOVER...Super Glue inventor passed away today.

[Shultzie]

A moment of silence for Harry Coover....
 BW@Our beloved 94 year old SUPER GLUE inventor as passed.
Harry and his friends at EASTMAN KODAK brought the adhesive onto the market waaaay back in 1958 for the  R&D medical community.
Google up Harry and read about his amazing life.
 

[Steve Fitton]

I was amazed to read that B-36s were assembled with that stuff.

My Dad used to have a big bottle of Eastman 910 in his workshop.  Wonder if they still make it?

I wondered, as I read the obit, how long it took Harry to start pranking people in the lab with that stuff...

[Dennis Moritz]

THE FIEND! Looks like such a mild mannered sort. Killed our sport. Double gluing, clamping, accurately cut parts, looping critical joints with winds of black thread, done with. Pinning accurately overnight. What happened to pinning, waiting overnight, until, maybe, hopefully, the wing stayed straight. Those were the days. What do the younguns 50 and under know. CA, more destructive to an adolescent male mind than video games... or... television.

[Shultzie]

I was amazed to read that B-36s were assembled with that stuff.

My Dad used to have a big bottle of Eastman 910 in his workshop.  Wonder if they still make it?

I wondered, as I read the obit, how long it took Harry to start pranking people in the lab with that stuff...

Yes..Pranks with HOTSTUFF at the Boeing wind tunnel were alway in "vogue."
For example..
All of us nerd-te-wells had to Punch a time clock and couldn't line up in front of the clock until 3 minutes before "punch out time" so it was often standard practice for our LEAD MAN to be first in the check out line..(his own lame rule) thus giving our "ROSEY-NUTS" a first out the door run to his parked car for a QUICK GET A WAY out of the Plant 2 gate which was always bogged down with a huge traffic jamm.
Our beloved "Rosey" our lead man... Johnny Rosenitz' would always take his metal lunch pail and set it on a table just next to the clock every day about 10 minutes before the time clock bell rang so he could  make a "FASTER EXIT...STAGE LEFT"

One day..we just couldn't help ourselves pulled a prank on our good
Rosey Budster'
After watching him setting that lunch pail down on the table...I took a bottle of HOT-STUFF snuck' around  and attached his metal lunch pail to the surface of the metal work table.

ALL EYES WERE ON HIM..WHEN THE TIME CLOCK BELL RANG as he made his quick dash for his lunch pail (which was firmly attached onto the work surface of that table)

WHAT A SIGHT!!! To see Rose make that flying pass by his lunch pail at FULL RUNNING SPEEEED..TAKE A QUICK GRAB at the handle of his lunch pail---WHICH SNAPPED OFF into his hand and without even looking back at everyone in that line who were laughing our "AZZZ'Z OFF...Rosey still had that handle in his hand as he RAN OUT THE DOOR...HOPPED INTO HIS CUSTOM DODGE CHARGER and laid a strip of rubber and smoke as raced to be first out the Boeing Guard Gate 18!
Our Plant manager...watched this whole prank out the glass lined office windows. He too was laughing.
However the next morning...I was called into THE MANAGERS OFFICE, given a written warning notice that this kind of prank (although funny) would never be repeated again!

Rosey came in that morning with a brand new lunch pail...walked over to me and his crew...smiled and said that he needed a new lunch pail anyhow, but then vowed that he would get even with the lead prankster before "high noon!"

After I came from lunch break over at the Boeing cafe...I couldn't find my favorite coffee mug anywhere..
IT WAS MISSING?
After looking around every conceivable place....I NOTICED ROSEY AND THE ENTIRE FLUTTER MODEL CREW...laughing as they watched ROSEY'S "SNYLIN' FACE" as he glanced first at me and then he would quickly roll his eye upward again and again TOWARD THE CEILING...without lifting his head?

THEN I LOOKED UP AT THE CEILING OF OUR WORK STATION!!! THERE WAS MY BELOVED FAVORITE BOEING DASH 80 COFFEE CUP....STUCK FIRMLY TO THE METAL ROOF RAFTER!

Anyone care to share their favorite HOT STUFF STORY?

[Shultzie]

Is it still "up" there?

My beloved cup remained stuck there onto the ceiling until Rosey took it down and gave it back to me at the party for his retirement.
Sadly Rosey has passed this life all too soon..(toooooomany Rainier Brewski's and toooo many Marlboro's!)
He did have about 10 good years...living out his life on the Beach just north of Longbeach Wa.
He and his sweet wife "Rusty" lived just across the back fence of our old Federal Way home where he and his wife would often "skip the fence" and skinny dipp in our new in ground swimming pool...while Carol and I would take off on weekends...flying competition kite festivals.
They both were just awesomely wonderful neighbors and we miss them so dearly.
They are both gone..but will live in our hearts until we meet again.
Rosey was the MOST GIFTED MODEL MAKERS who...also gifted with a PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY which made him so valuable to Boeing and his friends..(but also so very DANGEROUS WHEN IT CAME TO GETTING EVEN)

[Steve Fitton]

At the lab the girls hot stuffed the knob to my radio to NPR so they would not be subject to the G Gordon Liddy show anymore.
We usually pranked people more with liquid nitrogen than anything else.  You could really mess with somebody's bag lunch with that stuff.  The engineer was our favorite target, and his retaliations were usually too complex to ever work.

[Bob Kruger]

My former father in law was career US Army Medical Service Corps (E1 to E8) who was a young SSG with the 1st CAV in 1965-1967.  He said that they used some form of CyA on combat wounded as a quick means to close wounds, stop bleeding, etc.  Much faster than stitching when the casualties came pouring in and a surgeon's time was gold.

I don't know which CyA variant was used in the Vietnam era battalion and brigade aid stations, but if Harry Coover was the inventor, then there are vets walking today because of his invention who otherwise would have come home via a box through Dover AFB.  If that is the case, I lift my beer to him for the servicemen his invention saved, even if he "killed our sport".

V/r

Bob Kruger

THE FIEND! Looks like such a mild mannered sort. Killed our sport. Double gluing, clamping, accurately cut parts, looping critical joints with winds of black thread, done with. Pinning accurately overnight. What happened to pinning, waiting overnight, until, maybe, hopefully, the wing stayed straight. Those were the days. What do the younguns 50 and under know. CA, more destructive to an adolescent male mind than video games... or... television.

[Shultzie]

Yes!
Our beloved old Doctor Benard Jackson at  Plant 2 Boeing medical here in Seattle...used a hybrid' version of  Instant glue and kept quite a few accident prone modelmakers and Boeing machinists from bleeding to death before they rushed them to a hospital a few miles south of Plant 2 up DesMoines Way So.
It wasn't long before we had our own supply of MEDICAL INSTANT GLUE...in the Wind Tunnel main test chamber where sooooooooooo many modelmakers were prone to cutting themselves on metal force models sharp wing tips and trailing edges.
here is a shot of our model bud...BRUCE KIMBLE who was a prone "BLEEDER" WHO GAVE SO MUCH BLOOD SWEAT N' TEARS to the Boeing Company.
(That wind tunnel calibration Model he is holding...was given to me on the day of my retirement as a gift.)