A Sticky History of Superglue
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- Adhesives have been used for essentially the entirety of human history, but it wasn’t until the modern era that cyanoacrylates were discovered - twice - and mostly by accident. And the product with “a million household uses” has even more uses than you might know.
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“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue” -Airplane
Lloyd Bridges, he is so very missed.
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@@JamesThomas-gg6il He was holding a tube of 'Testors'.
... and coffee, cigarettes, and amphetamines.
'Model' glue, not superglue. That stuff was an excellent brain cell killer.
This video was just an excuse for THG to make as many puns and dad jokes as possible. I groan in respect good sir.
Lance always does a "Super" job. My dad would have loved it.
There is nothing wrong with that.
I’m really enjoying it
It was, indeed, Pun-ishing.
A pun is a joke that's just not fully groan.
Having grown up in the 70s, I always thought super glue came to the mass market with the commercial of the guy hanging from a hard hat he'd glued to the bottom of an I-beam.
I was thinking of that commercial as well.
I remember that photo was on the packaging of crazy glue.
This is probably a new high for the History Guy pun count.
I’m going to stick with THG for as long as he’s on CZcams, glued to the screen for each episode.
Uggh!
Obviously the 2 of you are well bonded.....
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one!
THG is outstanding, he’s a natural for voice over and enjoys an intellect that drives his work forward. AI could never be used as a substitute for THG, THG is uniquely gifted.
Buh….bum-bum 🥁
My Grandfather (RIP) told me years ago after he had retired from working there as a plumber at the Rochester plant, that "Kodak" accidently invented super glue. So, it's cool to hear the full story. Thank you.
Did not Joe Biden invent SG
I am a retired chemist. Among chemists, I have always heard the stress put on the a rather than the cryl in acrylate. So, it’s Acrylic acid (the parent compound from which the family takes its name), methyl Acrylate, ethyl Acrylate; not aCRYLic acid, methyl aCRYLate or ethyl aCRYLate.
Correct!!!
a·kruh·layt is how it pronounced.
Same with the pronunciation here. AK-rill-ate in Australia is the usual way, with the emphasis on the AK
Oh and I have seen it used by a doctor on a deep cut on a leg that was bleeding severely after a severe accident that left over 30 people with severe injuries, but that was back in the 90's. I was amazed
As a retired mechanic, I use super glue on cuts, works great, also it can be used as a home made plastic by using bicarbonate of soda and super glue, sets to a rock hard plastic like substance that can be filed great for fixing plastic gears. Superglue and cotton wool also works too.
In 1969 I was privileged to get to tour Hamilton Standard's labs at NASA Houston where a family friend was working on the Lunar Backpacks the Astronauts wore while walking around on the Moon. I had never heard of Super Glue. My friend handed me a bottle of Eastman 910 and demonstrated its ability to bond two strips of metal together instantly. I was dully impressed and took the bottle back to Lackland AFB where I was attending Tech School. I demonstrated its amazing capabilities to a number of my fellow Airmen and never had one who had heard of Super Glue. Until watching this installment of the History Guy I believed Eastman 910 to be invented in the middle 1960s. Once again you have enlightened and entertained. Thank you.
Fabulous! But that would be "duly".
@@joezephyr maybe he was dully impressed.
When I got to FE Warren AFB in 1972, I had no idea what Eastman 910 was. One of the buck sergeants told me to hold my hand out. He put a drop on my index finger and told me to touch it with my thumb...yep, instan bond..had to use acetone to get loose.
@@Ammo08 In 1979 I was a Field Engineer for GE working at the Bapco Oil Refinery in Bahrain. I had a tube of super glue in the Platformer control room to fix a broken pneumatic control and one of the Arab workers was fascinated with the rapid repair. I gave him a drop of super glue on the finger. He had other workers come in to try a drop. Soon, they all decided to find Mamud, a bull headed tough guy laborer who spoke no English. In front of everyone, he ripped the tube out of my fingers and squirted the whole tube into the palm of his hand and rapidly opened and closed his fist while making an animal sounding ''BAAAAHHHH''. Yeah, Western magic water no good, I show you......Then his hand seized up. I saw his eyes widen and he left the control room. The next day I saw (from a distance) that his hand was completely bandaged. A worker told me that he ripped his fingers from his palm one by one and it tore skin off leaving raw flesh. For the next 45 years, I can't help but say BAAAHHHH every time I use super glue.
Anecdote for you Lance, in my time in Marine Corps in Afghanistan we used super glue to re-bond cuts and small punctures from shrapnel (post removal if possible) as a way to keep wounds clean. I did multiple tours in Marjah/Marjeh where there is a large canal system we would have to cross often on patrols; any cuts or open wounds would burn and often form rashes from the dirty water and the glue helped mitigate that. We passed around the stories of WWII vets using it for wounds but apparently that may be less of a thing than we thought. Thanks for the video, a buddy and I were just reminiscing about this very subject a few days ago.
Old Army vet here. When J&J stared marketing the OB Tampon for women, we immediately added 4 or 5 to our personal first aid pack. Pop that bad boy into an open wound - boom bleeding literally stops. Redefined the fix for bullet and shrapnel wounds and a mircle to sucking chest wounds.
We referred to the J&J OB tampon as "Odd Ballestics" fix
I accidentally gave my wife Superglue instead of Chapstick.
She's still not talking to me.
I need to remember that
LOL
"Accidentally"
Accidentally on purpose.
WARNING! WARNING! BAD DAD JOKE ... INCOMING!
At 67 I have been building plastic kit models since I was ten. In recent years, watching YT model channels, I learned to use Super Glue in certain applications, especially to attach photo etched brass parts to plastic. I have a couple tubes of Vet Bond CA glue for medical emergencies, but haven't needed to use it yet.
It's also smart to keep a bottle of de-bond around in case you glue your fingers to each other. If I remember correctly it is a mixture of acetone Nitro methane and alcohol and unfortunately cannot be used to debond superglued plastic parts as the solvents may damage them
...cool to hear from another model builder who uses cyanoacrylates...
Another fun thing is to use it to fill gaps in projects (not people!) by first pouring baking soda into the gap and then adding some cyanoacrylate.
Near-instant curing and ready to sand or paint in minutes.
The surgical application in wartime was astounding. But while our side was gluing parts back together, the communists were using Yunnan Baiyao orally and topically to staunch bleeding. hard to stop a man who won't bleed out.
Thank you, History Guy. I enjoy your hard work and efforts to bring forth the things that we all take for granted or just plain forgot.
I worked for Borden Chemical where there was a room that was designed just for the packaging of 'Super Glue'. I only worked in that room once, it made me totally high and asked never to be assigned to that room again. It was no problem, there were many workers who liked the effects of working there.
I work at a glue factory and you kinda have to be built different to work in our mixing room, even with a respirator.
Lord if it's anything like the smell of super glue and baking soda I'll pass.
…pull out a crinkled little tube…that’s probably now solid…
"My kids are the worst. They put Krazy Glue in my Preparation H"
-Rodney Dangerfield
Being from Kingsport Tennessee I've always been fascinated and kind of proud that "super glue" originated here at the then Tennessee Eastman...now Eastman chemical company. Excellent history for those who don't know!
As a balsa model airplane builder it changed the game. When you were at the field and broke your airplane you either got out the epoxy or went home. I have sat down and built one from start to finish in one weekend.
We plastic model builders use Super Glue too.
Why not use a hot bonding glue which works great on wood and plastic and sets in seconds? I think Super glue doesnt work well on plastics.
@@bayareapianist hot glues are hot, heavy, and not very precise. They are flexible and removable. But super glue will wick into the wood to make a strong bond. Hot glue is good on a foam airplane where the flexibility is beneficial. If you are interested in seeing the kind of models I build look up peanut scale model airplanes.
I especially like it for small wounds. Just wipe out the blood, squeeze in the Super Glue and you're back to business.
I remember being away with a few mates for a weekend, and on the first day, one of the guys chipped a tooth. Not being practical to head home, we swung by a supermarket to pick up some superglue, and glued his tooth back together in the car park 🤣
Exactly ❤
I also put a small piece of tissue paper or kleenex atop the superglue to form a composite. Then a bit of salvia with a finger tip to activate the super glue gel.
I had a tooth chip in half on my front tooth. I glued it back with super glue and it lasted for three or four months. The funny thing is when I was holding the tooth in place waiting for the superglue to set… My thumb became attached to the front of my tooth and I had to tear my thumb away leaving a big patch of skin on my front tooth. That also lasted for a few days. Other than a hurt thumb, it was overall successful.
@@MBKindellbetter than getting your tongue stuck to a pole in the middle of a blizzard I guess!😊
Used "cure", rather than "dry"... That's an attention to detail that gets a like!
Anyone who has ever tried to use an unopened tube of super glue that's been sitting around too long and turned rock hard will find it makes more sense when you think of the glue as curing and not simply drying
OK… You seem to be easy to please.
@@MBKindell , you cannot be effective at working with adhesives unless you have a basic idea of how they function. There are special superglue "accelerants", liquids in a a spray can, that will speed up the curing process of super glue and make it set instantaneously; obviously, spraying the glue with a liquid wouldn't work if the glue needed to "dry". Ditto for the instantaneous reaction between superglue and baking soda, turning rock-hard in seconds.
@@MBKindell When almost everyone gets that one thing wrong...many that are engineers... The words mean things.
So, pleased I am.
The medical uses of Eastman 9-10 got a reference in the early Star Trek novel "Uhura's Song," with there being a surgical glue commonly used by the Federation called StitchIt 9-10.
Thank you. I worked in science laboratories and did field work. Super glue saved our projects many times when things broke apart.
Thanks again.
I always enjoy your videos. I had a brothet-in-law that worked for NASA for a time. He relayed to me a story about a satellite they were launching that had to have the antenna mounted once orbit was reached. They were stymied until they put a small capsule on the antenna mount filled with super glue and activater in separate compartments in the capsule. When the assembly mechanism slammed the antenna into place, the capsule would shatter and, viola, within a few seconds the antenna was permanently mounted! I think he help come up with that solution, as he was quite proud of it.
The name is Bond. Cyanoacrylate Bond.
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*_ba-DUM-TSS!_*
Good one!
Just a few hours ago I was looking up the history of wood glue out of sheer curiosity and now I get super glue too. Thank you!
Mr History Guy, you should do an episode on the history of yourself the history guy! What got you into history and why is it such a strong love with all things history!?
Obviously it is history that deserves to be remembered!
He has.
🔔 THG: Once again your stick-to-it-tive-ness in endeavoring to try to regularly put out an interesting video will have your audience glued to their seats!
On a British Time Team television episode it was demonstrated how Anglo-Saxons made glue, during the "Dark Ages."
My son split open the area around his eyebrow when he was about 8.
The doctor glued the wound shut... but in the process glued her glove to his skin as well.
The poor kid had to endure the pain of the glued glove being removed on top of everything else... He didn't shed a tear.
You can buy debonding solvents to dissolve a skin to skin super glue bond.a mixture of acetone nitromethane and alcohol IIRC.
This was a super episode, I was glued to the screen 🤙
When I was a toddler in 1968, I had hernia surgery. They superglued me together!
I put a few tubes of Superglue in my first aid kit and camping gear.
I’m glued to the screen watching this !
I first came across Eastman 910 in 1968. We used it to tack down glass reticules to metal bases to scribe lines. when it was time to remove the piece a sharp tap with a hammer on the base the glass would pop right off.
Today I use it in my hobby machine shop to tack difficult to hold pieces prior to mechanical workholding.
Useful stuff.
I remember the commercials in the 1970s for Krazy Glue & the guy holding onto his hard hat bonded to an I-beam girder flailing his legs about. After watching CZcams, I learned about using Baking Soda with Super Glue to make small plastic like repairs & increasing the strength of bonds with small metal pieces, but in general stronger bonds overall.
All these glue puns have really... groan... on me
I love Loctite 404; it's saved my bacon on the job many times in the last 35 years!!!
I always carry some in my toolbox. If it's a clean cut, it's all you need.
I gained instant respecrt when 50 years ago I super glued my finger to my nose.
I could sprnd so many hours just looking up more in depth history as a result of these shorts! These shorts make the world fascinating to me!
Cyano instant bonders absolutely revolutionized the building of balsa model airplanes. It truly was a miracle bonder compared to the old model airplane cements that required at least an over-nite curing...It's medical use is less known but very important. Thank you for a great video.
1970 I had my earlobe repaired after it was torn during a rugby game. The nurse used some fast acting "Super Glue", it did burn a little bit but fixed the earlobe instantly.
Well, you handled that stick subject well. Thank you, THG, for another great story of a piece of history that we did not know we needed to know.
THG,.... you're killing me with these puns! 😆😅🤣
I mean, really, I'm coming unglued!
Fantastic story telling, as usual! 👍
Very interesting topic too.
Thanks for making these videos. 🤗
This is a good companion piece to your episode on duct tape.
I tried to slice open one of those infernal plastic blister packs, but I got a little careless and sliced the tips of 3 fingers open. No matter what I did they would not stop bleeding. Hours later I finally got the flow slowed enough to grab my Superglue from my truck and close the wounds. They stayed closed, and to this day I can't see the scars.
I thought I might find this one a bit tacky but I stuck with it and was glued to my seat!
Another Super episode of history that deserves to be remembered.
You could say that super glue has stuck around since its invention :P
Our detectives used super glue to lift prints at the Department I retired from.
The Sticky Sweethearts have a song about this. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on glue!
I just posted this as well! Have you heard the hip-hop remix yet? It's tight!
Back in the dark ages before quick-clot our Corpsman (medic) would treat cuts - sometimes pretty nasty ones - we picked up moving through the jungle with super glue. Wipe, disinfect it, wipe it again, pinch the cut together and super glue it. It worked pretty well. He always carried several tubes in his Corpsman kit. He bought them himself; it was not an issue item for Corpsmen. I’ve done it few times since. It tends to freak out my wife.
Kids & grandkids as well
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This channel is so amazing, I love history of anything. Thank you 😊
Adhering to one man's word isn't easy for me, but sometimes a name sticks. THG is one of those names.
This is GREAT!!!
SUPERlative!
I think most folks have used super glue and/or every type of tape to close off self inflicted wounds. And for a lot of us, when we do we always think the line from Predator “I ain’t got time to bleed” if not saying it aloud.
I always keep this stuff handy to fix skin chaps on my thumbs - the ones that get caught when reaching into a pocket. Works a treat!👍🏻
No mention of the popularity of use that came with 1980’s Krazy Glue commercials with a guy hanging from his hard hat?
Yeah, I kept waiting for at least a screen cap of that image.
Cyano acrylates are used in automotive clear coats, the two part process is why car finishes are so durable and fade resistant. Since the vapors are toxic, applicators must use a carbon filtered mask to absorb the fumes.
I discovered that the type made for attaching false fingernails is especially handy and useful. It goes on with a brush, gives you a little time before it sets, and it doesn't irritate the skin. Plus, the little bottle lid screws down tightly, so it doesn't dry up so fast between uses.
Been using Super Glue to close cuts for over 40 years. Better than any band-aid.
As someone who buys 1.1 pound bottles of CA by the CASE, I appreciate this.
I had never heard of super glue until the 1970's. A hobby shop I used to go to had what was called Zapp back then. Loved the stuff.
'They didn't find anything strong enough to hold together the Roman Empire'...
OOOHH!! Sick burn! (J/k- i laughed. THG can be very funny/punny! Great vid, great channel 👍)
I kept some in the church balcony to repair my organ shoes when needed.
Eddy Murphy in 'Beverly Hills Cop ' showed how a fingerprint can be made visible using super glue.
My beer-drinking stepbrother and myself always created some good cheer in the neighborhood bars we frequented years (and years?) ago by super-gluing our first round empties to each other. MOST of the bartenders enjoyed the prank. After a while we got others involved and made some GRAND beer-amids. haha Great memories!
As a Rochester, NY resident and former Kodak employee, I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
I'm afraid you missed one of the most important uses of CA.
I'm a pen maker, and CA makes an exce43llent finish for wooden pens. It's hard and shines up well.
Just be sure not to glue yourself to the pen...
They do sell special debonding solvents for that type of sticky problem.
My father worked at Kodak 60’s-80’s, designed the molds for the super 8 and 126 film cartridges. Anyway, he would bring a lot of different things home one of them was Eastman 910, in the late 60’s.
Fast forward a few years, I was working on something with both a small tipped soldering iron and 910. For “giggles” I decided to stick the hot tip of the iron in the glue, and boy was I surprised. I was blinded, and I just started to cry. Didn’t know it would make tear gas.
I really am astonished to hear about its forensic application in fingerprints. All the other stuff talked about are basically the kind of things you typically do with glue, sticking stuff together. So nothing that is all that astonishing, even if impressive. But that use with CVD to show fingerprints really blew my mind.
You’re Awsome, always enjoy your videos, thanks for all over them over the years!
Keep ‘em coming.
I have a guitar, which I painted in superglue. The finish came out beautiful. The glues dried so thinly, it created a very light weight… If I could post a picture, I would. It is a really great guitar.
My first exposure to this was in the late 1960s. I went to work for a manufacturing subsidiary of AT&T. The tool and die department had tiny dark bottles from Kodak that I was told cost $80 per bottle and were only half full when new. My weekly pay at the time was ~$83.
You are an excellent communicator. Sincere kudos.
As always-great film!
I particularly enjoyed this episode, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us
My sister's work as a physiotherapist was with amputees, and she would use Super Glue to repair their prosthetic limbs. She even glued her fingers together at least once! Old fashioned hide glue is still favoured by restorers of antique furniture as it can be reversed with gentle heat to loosen wood joints.
I have had cyanoacrylate glues around, and while they have their applications, they aren't the be-all and end-all of adhesives. I built a 2 meter Carl Goldberg "Gentle Lady" sailplane in 1997 and other than the wing spar joint, I used exclusively CYA glue to build this thing, and it is still flying.
YES you will stick your fingers together; Acetone stops this.
Great video!
The curing process of CA super glues is begun and accelerated by the presence of moist air or residual moisture on the surfaces being glued which even includes the microscopic pores in what might appear to be smooth shiny metal. It also reacts with biological organic materials such as cellulose and wood fibers, lint and skin cells, all kinds of stuff that floats around in the air (a cotton ball saturated with CA glue will smolder nasty fumes and perhaps even burst into flame). Once you open the bottle or tube, moisture invariably gets inside of it and the product will start to slowly cure; but even unopened bottles and tubes will apparently have some kind of moisture or organic contaminants introduced during the manufacturing and bottling process, and so the glue will eventually harden and cure inside the container even if you haven't opened it. Sadly most manufacturers do not date the bottles with a "use by" date or date of manufacture and I've been unable to look up batch numbers online to decipher when the glue was made; therefore It's always best to buy such glues from a place that is likely to have high tumover and unlikely to be selling glue that sat in a distributor's warehouse for a couple of years before going to your local dollar store. I like the Titebond CA glues sold at Woodcraft or online, which are available in waterthin and medium viscosity formulations; most garden variety superglues are too thick, and I've never found a use for the "gel" formulations.
Anybody who works with super glue regularly should get a bottle of the special debonding solvent which will allow you to separate fingers that have been glued together. You can also buy accelerators usually in a spray bottle which will cure the CA glue and heartbeat but be aware that most of them have solvents that may damage a painted or plastic finish, so use cautiously. There are also CA glue formulations that will cure slowly on their own but cure immediately when exposed to an ultraviolet light flashlight which can be really useful for gluing things together that need a bit of strength to hold them fast at the edges but allowing the glue inside a thick crack to cure more slowly.
Guitarists and guitar repairmen in particular have found numerous uses for super glues. If a bone or plastic nut on your guitar chips are loose as a chunk you can build it back up with baking soda and super glue (the thin formulations work much better than the thicker, ordinary mini tube type supergkue) and cut, sand and file as needed to restore the string grooves. Fingerstyle guitarists sometimes reinforce their fingernails with super glue and silk (Martin Simpson, one of the best guitar players on the planet does this); But be aware that super glue can become nearly burning hot in contact with skin and organic material so use caution. For other guitar related uses of superglue, watch Ted Woodford's channel on CZcams.
I do watch Ted's CZcams channel, and I have used super glue in guitar repair. Used it today to repair the handle of my microwave door. Made a baking soda/super glue reinforcement around the damaged part.
Take very seriously the warning about heat and fumes when combining super glue and particle material like baking soda and carbon. It gets seriously hot!!!
My first encounter with super glue was in the mid 1960s, when I worked part time for a plastic and rubber fabricating firm in Rochester, NY. Another employee had a bottle of Eastman 910 in the break room, and decided to see if the stories about it were true. He brushed a circle of glue on the bottom of an ash tray, slammed the ash tray down on the table, counted to ten, and lifted the whole table by the ash tray!
I was repairing typewriters in the 1972 when we were issued first generation super glue. I glued a quarter to the corner of a pool table using it . A year later it was still there, edges slightly battered from people trying to knock it off.
This guy really makes even mundane things seem quite fun!!
Fixing my split small toenail, great stuff!
After using Superglue for years I have found that it is the best at gluing fingers together!😃
I picked a fine Day to quit Sniffing GLUE!🧴
Thank you for the lesson.
Very informative and well executed. Thank You.
Fantastic well done Sir
Hi Lance, love the bow tie!!
I’m glued to your channel
It turns out that dried super glue is nonconductive to electricity... a liquid that can be applied to insulate a surface. In 1975, I used Eastman 910 to coat a connector pin that was shorting out to the shell of a circular connector in the cockpit of an F4 Phantom jet fighter. The jet was loaded with weapons on 5-minute air defence alert, so it was important to get it back in operational status. As far as I know, that repair held up over time.
I will adhere to the plan of watching the History Guy. 😊
I'm a plumber and I always have super glue in my first aid kit. Pinch the wound closed and put a drop on it and you're good to go.
Another great little part of history !
You got to get to some of these people while they're living and talk to them for us.
I've been wrong for years regarding super glue, its origins, and wound care. Sure it sucks when you find out you've been wrong all this time, but that's what learning will always feel like I guess! Great video and very informative!
My upper dentures broke in three places. I didn't have the money for a dentist to order me another one, so I used Super glue to glue the pieces back together and they look good as new. I do however am careful not to eat anything hard or crunchy, but I can live with that. Interesting history on super glue. Thanks!
I really enjoyed this. An excellent presentation on a very sticky subject.
Love your videos