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1st March 2018, 12:21 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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A cyanoacrylate high
Last night I was down in my workshop gluing a car part (plastic, copper and vinyl) with cyanoacrylate glue. Unfortunately, when I went to get the glue top off it was stuck so I applied the pliers for a grip and broke the noozle part off. I then decanted remaining glue into a glass jar. Then for the job I was doing I would dip a cotton bud in and apply it to the part I was gluing. I had a particularly disturbed sleep and maybe I was on an cyanoacrylate high!
So I have two questions:
# Has anyone had a cyanoacrylate high and
# How do you stop the lid over the noozle from getting stuck on permanently?
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1st March 2018, 12:54 PM #2
CA is toxic so your high was likely due to it's toxicity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate#Toxicity
Put it in an old jelly jar with a couple of silica gel dessicant packs. Store tightly closed in the refrigerator.Innovations are those useful things that, by dint of chance, manage to survive the stupidity and destructive tendencies inherent in human nature.
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1st March 2018, 01:20 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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I've not a High from it, but ended up with sinus problems, I didn't have a disturbed sleep from memory, this was back in 2011 when I did 120 pens finished with 20 coats of CA, used 4 20ml bottles in 3 months. I'm told I have a disturbed sleep every night, tossing and turning.
To stop the lid sticking to the nozzle, stand the bottle upright, and tap it down several times, then squeeze the bottle to express any air in the tip and wipe off any that remains on the tip, then screw the lid on and store in a cool place. I have an old fridge housing in my shed that I use for storing stuff that needs to be kept cool, glues, resins, paints etc.
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1st March 2018, 01:41 PM #4.
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I have gotten several highs.
The symptoms that indicate you are being poisoned include not feeling well, tingling finger tips (and toes) and tingling around the mouth like a mild chilli burn.
The worst time was when I applied 2 pack to the kitchen counter tops some 20 years ago.
I could not find the small measuring cylinder I normally used to measure out the hardener so I used a tea spoon.
I wore a pair of poorly fitting plastic gloves and used a cheap brush that kept dropping hairs - ever tried to pick up brush hairs with a crappy plastic gloves?
Finally I took a glove off so I could pick them up.
When I finished it was about 11pm and I had a small tub of yoghurt while I watched telly and had a brief chat with my son who had come in from an evening out on the turps and was ready to crash for the night.
After about 15 minutes I started to feel faint tingling finger tips and lips. I ran to the kitchen to check if the teaspoon I had used was the same one I had doled out the hardener with.
Nope, both were laying in the bottom of the sink.
I shook my son awake and told him I think I had poisoned myself and he promptly said "sure dad" and rolled over and went back to sleep.
By then the tingling had really kicked in and my lips were getting numb.
I was about to call the poisons centre but instead I got on line and found the MSDS - turns out you had to eat quite a bit to die and while you could absorb it through your skin you wouldn't die that way.
I stayed up for about another hour and by the then tingling had subsided and I don't remember getting a poor nights sleep.
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1st March 2018, 01:55 PM #5
And created a bunch of neo-antigens to which your immune system reacted eliciting the symptoms.
A similar but much worse syndrome is noted in the case of toluene diisocyanate in those who spray and inhale things like automobile paint products. Many exposed to TDI developed airway problems.
The neo-antigens set you up for allergies, asthma and other atopies.Innovations are those useful things that, by dint of chance, manage to survive the stupidity and destructive tendencies inherent in human nature.
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