Undo the super glue!!

[dpm]

That's what I was told too, but apparently it's incorrect. While it was used in Vietnam for wounds it wasn't invented for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate

[David Schwab]

I heard it was also made for gluing teeth back together.

I didn't realize it was the same as Eastman 910. I used to use that back in the 70's. It didn't have a very long shelf life though.

[mick]

They still use it for cuts etc , my son had his heel cut glued back together , not sure if it's just used where stitches might pull apart or catch on something??.

Mick

[Zhangliqun]

Try heating the mags with a solder iron. The glue may melt.

[NightWinder]

Thats crazy you mention that! I just slashed my right hand mid knuckles across index,mid, third finger shearing some nickle/silver for some soapbars. Really deep, and nasty. Got stitches and blew them out shutting the screen door.....Horrible shit!!
Poured one drop of super glue over it.........Kept it from blowing out, and its now stable after a $290.00 doctor bill?

[kevinT]

Thats crazy you mention that! I just slashed my right hand mid knuckles across index,mid, third finger shearing some nickle/silver for some soapbars. Really deep, and nasty. Got stitches and blew them out shutting the screen door.....Horrible shit!!
Poured one drop of super glue over it.........Kept it from blowing out, and its now stable after a $290.00 doctor bill?

nightwinder,

there is your new design. Blood splattered humbucker covers.

[NightWinder]

Yeah!! Hummm

[dpm]

hehe, genuine blood spattered humbuckers...

I regularly superglue small cuts that I get from fret ends, scalpels etc.. It keeps the crud out, which is particularly important when working on funky, sweaty old guitars. Also good for patching up fingernails if you split one down to the flesh - a bit of tissue paper and some thin CA, a quick file and it won't catch and tear. gotta love that superglue.

[jonson]

From what I understand Mark yes it was used in Vietnam but my understanding was it was an accidental by product from a photographic company which I was told but can't confirm was Kodak. But it is the mainstay in my workshop medical box. I'm one of those people with a funny pain threshold so quite happy to stitch myself up when things go wrong but nowdays superglue does the job much quicker and cleaner.(gets a bit hot if I spray on activator to get it to go off fast.)

[David Schwab]

They still use it for cuts etc , my son had his heel cut glued back together , not sure if it's just used where stitches might pull apart or catch on something??.

Yeah my 2.5 year old daughter had a cut closed on her forehead with Durmabond, which apparently is CA.

If I had know I would have done it myself!

[David Schwab]

From what I understand Mark yes it was used in Vietnam but my understanding was it was an accidental by product from a photographic company which I was told but can't confirm was Kodak.

Yes, it was Eastman Kodak.

From Wikipedia:

Cyanoacrylate was discovered by Harry Coover at Eastman Kodak during World War II when searching for a way to make plastic gun-sight lenses.

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1964, Eastman submitted an application to use cyanoacrylate glues to seal wounds to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Soon afterward Dr. Harry Coover's glue did find use in Vietnam—reportedly in 1966...