Removing Crazy Glue from Fingers! Help!

[Brangwen]

Fellow Members & Guests:

Can anyone suggest a sure-fire method to remove crazy glue from fingers? A woman I know very well just telephoned me. She was quite frantic as she was attempting to fix something, and ended up with the glue all over her fingers. She tried finger polish remover but to no avail.

Any ideas?

Thx!

Brangwen

[Daft_Ghosty]

maybe warm water.. hold hand under warm water.. maybe some rubbing alcohol..

there is actual super glue remover.. but I'll take it she can't get out to get any right now..

[Underclocked]

BLOW TORCH.
Most every resource says fingernail polish remover or acetone. Repeated applications with either, rinsing with water between applications. Seems to wear off pretty quickly in any event. If she could get to the polish remover on her own, she isn't too bad off.

[poopeyhed2]

Maybe it's like in the Simpsons where Bart glues all those novelty pieces, a little human sweat will take it off.. Why didn't she use the super-glue that doesn't "stick" to the skin?

[mickwish]

If here fingers are stuck together, then she needs repeated applications of nail-polish remover (acetone based) as suggested, and a little warm water to soak in after. Should then be able to gently peel them apart. If not, she needs to go to an emergency room before it "sets" too much (like within 24 hours, otherwise bonded skin can "grow" together.

If her fingers aren't stuck together, just wave them around to dry before applying acetone. The glue won't help her skin tone , but it won't do any damage either. They use superglue for wounds now instead of sutures - it's a medical grade glue, but a similiar composition, so the normal stuff won't harm her much (apart from sticking her to things in the first few seconds).

The things you people ask on a tech forum

[Brangwen]

Mickwish:

I know this "seems" a rather unusual question for a tech forum, but suppose I had written that my friend was gluing a heatsink to some component on a PCB when she got glue on her fingers?

Thx for the replies.

I'll pass them on to her.

Brangwen

[Pshawn5]

umm you should ask warthog, he has experience!

[mickwish]

She should use a bonding thermal paste (http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_adhesives.htm). Not as likely to stick your fingers together. Super glue has no useful thermal conduction properties from what I've heard, so it won't help a heat sink get heat to it. Uselss for heat transfer. I know there are ppl that use superglue to glue on RAM fins to cards, but only a tiny bit on the corners to allow the surfaces still to contact each other.
See, we got a tech reply from it!

[Brangwen]

Responders:

Thanks for the responses and advice.

The situation is under control.

Brangwen

[Mike]

LOL
Warthog is a riot, don't want to mention super glue when he's around. He will start this big story about how he was being a silly pig one night and glued his fingers to...himself..

[Knothead]

That's TMI, Mike....LOL!

[mickwish]

Hey! This is in IMO Community now! Do my post counts get deducted? That's entrapment, brangwen!

j/k

[MDS]

This reminded me of a movie American Pie II has anyone else seen it.

[caddmannq]

No, thank God!

BTW, super glue will close wounds quite nicely. I sliced my finger quite badly once, and glued the flap of skin right down. By the time the glue wore off, I didn't even have a scar.

This stuff also glues rubber like nobody's business. I've repaired nail punctures in the sidewall of radial tires that shops told me were unrepairable. I've glued driveshaft boots, and even lap-spliced a fanbelt once. Done right, it is much stronger than the rubber itself. The key is to clean the surfaces a couple times with a good solvent like MEK, and let them dry completely.

[Socalgal]

Fingers is stuck with crazyglue??

<g>

[THRUSH]

Reminds me of some stories I heard about while in college. Two of the guys who lived on my floor got the glue one night when they were drinking at a party and went to sleep later. One woke up glued to the carpet and the other glued mainly with his hands on himself.
Man, another one. I just saw this on funniest home videos or something like that. Some little kid took a big sheet of self-sticking wallpaper or something I forget what it was now, but he was bare and wrapped it from back to front, like a diaper. He wasn't too happy when it came to trying to get it off the nether regions. That looked very painful.

[sharder8]

The key is to clean the surfaces a couple times with a good solvent like MEK, and let them dry completely.

Methyl Ethyl Ketone

Cadd -- That's illegal to own or possess in the state of California. It's also covered under USC 49, parts 100-199 for transport and storage.

Harder

[Knothead]

WHAT! When did they do that! How dare they!
What's a reasonable substitute?

[Warthog]

This is several hours after the "incident".



rofl, not kidding, it was on that finger......doesn't look as bad because as I said, it was several hours and several doses of acetone/gasoline/whatever I could find later.

The tube had a block in it, I squeezed harder (BAD idea), it went POOF all over my fingers, I ran downstairs - careful not to touch anything and not hold my fingers together....so I had callused, cut-resistant fingers (mostly the middle) for a bit.

Warthog

[caddmannq]

That's illegal to own or possess...

OK...trichlorethelyene works too

Ummm...I keep a gallon or so of MEK around "just for emergencies." What else can you use to thin nitrocelulose lacquer? (Don't ask...I've been hoarding it for years )

You're not gonna mention those 16oz cans of Freon in the bottom of my tool box...OK?

Geeze...I still got a Bulova Acutron with real radium on the dial!

I guess I'm not too PC.