Posted on 03/27/2011 3:07:41 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
KINGSPORT, Tenn. -- Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.
Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company when an accident resulted in Super Glue, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina.
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Most flintknappers keep superglue in their toolkits -- to "heal" minor cuts so they can keep working. And I've even seen folks glue broken preforms back together -- and then proceed to knap thru the fractures as if the stone were not at all interrupted...
One of the original great ideas for super glue was to glue arteries together. Dr. Mike DeBakey had a whole program going in the ‘70s to glue arteries. My roommate was a fellow at Baylor and they finally got the aorta glued to the iliac when the great man walked in for the first time all year. He peered into the dog and said good at which point the glue gave and Dr. DeBakey got hit in the face with the entire cardiac output. I wish we had video!
I used it tagging sharks for the U of Florida off Bimini. We would poke a hole in the belly of a shark and put a small test tube inside the shark and then bond the wound together for a minute with some “superglue” and off it would go. A couple of years later the Japanese would send the test tube back after the factory ships had come through and raped the area.
I might add, their are lots of different superglues for very specific purposes.
Easy now, I did that once. I used a razor blade angled more towards my finger than eyelid to separate them. It freaked out the people in the shop.
I never thought of using it for that sort of thing. Thanks.
There are medical versions of superglue that probably cost $50/tube. I know docs who will use the regular stuff in a heartbeat.
The stuff needs a basic ph to cure. If surfaces are acidic, you need an accelerator. Also, the thicker stuff takes longer to cure.
Bicarbonate of soda works pretty well, or you can buy spray bottles they sell for that purpose.
I think you just freaked out a bunch of FReepers too. LOL
What were you gluing? It doesn't stick to some plastics.
Metal on metal. I have used it in the past for many jobs and it always fails. I don’t know if I should try epoxy or some of the spray glues.
LOL!
>> I used superglue to seal up a sliced finger a while back.
Never used glue, but have managed a few wounds with tractor grease.
I’ll have to remember that one.
I use cyanoacrylate cement with baking soda to repair or reinforce plastic bonds. It's fantastic - use a spatula to shape the baking soda, then use a small narrow tipped dropper to drop the super glue on the baking soda. (Ventilate the area due to the chemical reaction.) I buy the glue in jars and refrigerate it when not using it, lasts longer that way.
RIP.
I use to play in his back yard. He and the adjoining neighbor had several mimosa trees that were where Tarzan lived an we swung and jumped from trunk to trunk.
I took a swinging jump and missed the destination branch, falling on my head, knocked out with a concussion.
Super glue came along in High school and was used to glue plates to the black board, to make long chains of coke bottles and other such pranks
It was originally known as Eastman 910 adhesive
Also good for gluing teeth back into your dentures, and if a nail cracks below the quick, the glue will keep it together until it grows out enough to be clipped without tearing the nail below the quick. Great with some crafts. To remove it from your fingers etc, use acetone nail polish remover...be sure its 100% acetone...sofens the glue so it can be removed..
At my "well-established" '-) age, my nails sometimes get very brittle; thanks for the fingernail tip!
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