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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m a disaster with that stuff. The tubes were always a pain to use without making a mess and sticking my fingers together.


27 posted on 03/27/2011 4:15:06 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: VanDeKoik

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.


42 posted on 03/27/2011 5:40:21 PM PDT by TxDas (This above all, to thine ownself be true.)
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