I just ran out of commercial CA accelerator. It will be at least Saturday before I can get more. In the meantime, I have read about homemade stuff- baking soda in water. I am thinking of giving that a try in my empty spray bottle. Anyone try that formula? The commercial stuff is an organic solvent of some sort, but the things I have read say the baking soda solution works.
Just water should work Don, the moisture on our finger tips is why they stick together. I would try a spritz of plain water before a solution that could leave a residue after drying.
+1 for plain old water. Just have to have something to cut the CA off from the free oxygen in the air, and water does the trick nicely.
Hello!
I’ve seen lacquer thinner make CA bond faster - I’m just not sure which component does the trick. The thinner has toluene, acetone, and acetate.
Good luck with your CA nad have a nice day
Paweł
Isn’t ca debonder also lacquer?
Well, I don’t know… to be true I never used a debonder, only heard about it many times, like here on the forums…
Funny thing - some years ago there was a company here in Poland sellins small 2 Gram tubes of thin CA almost everywhere - newspaper kiosks, grocery stores, everywhere. They were good value for money - 2 gram costing about 25 to 50 cents recalculated from Polish Zlotys. And the tubes were made extra cheap to make it hard to use up the whole tube - they wanted you to go back and buy another one if you neded more glue. The joke: the same company also made and sold the debonder, but only a few special shops had it in stock because it cost in excess of 20$ package… Clever business plan, huh?
Now those shitty, cheap tubes really taught me how to handle thin CA.
And yes, brushing on a small amount of lacquer thinner on top of a blob of CA made it go hard fast, very handy for filling gaps.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day
Paweł
Acetone is the debonder. My wife gets samples of acetone based nail polish remover. I keep a bottle on the bench all the time. As was said above water is the accelerator. Never tried the spritz bottle but I think the finest spray pattern comes from a perfume bottle. I just wet the tip of a toothpick.
Jim [cptn]
Stay Safe.