Super T Medium Instant CA Glue, 2oz HST-4

- I saw this recommended on a couple of websites for Luthiers ((people who hand-craft guitars and other stringed instruments)). I'm working on making some kalimbas, which are not stringed, but are wooden, and are musical instruments, so there ya go ;) - The *quality* of this product is high, which is why I gave five stars. It's exactly as described, and seems to be to hold like, er, dare I say "crazy"? LOL! - For better or worse, I also do like that it's a US product and that the company helps our Veterans. - Interestingly, this does not seem to me to have much of a "smell", which I consider to be a good thing, since it indicates that the glue contains fewer volatile chemicals. - I do keep it in a tightly-closed jar with 2 dessicant packs ((10 grams total of silicon granules)), but not in the fridge, because I use it too often. It seems to still flow as it ought to, although the tip does clog a bit, probably because I only snipped off a tiny part of the tip so that the opening is *just barely* large enough for me to insert a slender pin. But that's the trade-off when one works on a small scale. - On the Plus side, all I have to do is give the pin a very slight twist and pull it out, and Presto!, there is glue flow ;) - I like that this sets rather slowly - it gives me time to make adjustments and be sure things are fitting together as I want them to. I'll eventually try mixing it with powdered substances ((I'll try wood bits first ;) )) for gap-filling and, with luck!, decoration, but I haven't yet gotten around to trying that. - I *personally* haven't adapted to using this glue, though, so I make sure I have my work surface covered, and sometimes I wear lightweight nitrile gloves. But all in all, this medium-thick consistency is MUCH preferable to me than the super-thin CA glues I've previously bought locally.

Good product. The challenge is keeping it in a liquid form once it has been opened. Either the cap becomes sealed and won't let it come out for another application or it get air and the liquid becomes solid.

purpose surface-to-surface adhesive on the market. I was introduced to the Hot Stuff line of CA glues back in 1991 when I was working for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as a consultant with the Paleontology Department. We used all three grades of Hot Stuff for piecing together vertebrate fossils (e.g., dinosaurs, fish, and mammals) that came out of the ground as hundreds of shattered bits of lithified bone, teeth, and scales. I'm talking about gluing one piece of rock to another, which is no mean feat for a commercial adhesive. You can glue just about ANYTHING to ANYTHING ELSE with this stuff. The gap-filling ability of the thick grade of Hot Stuff is unsurpassed. The thinnest grade of Hot Stuff is great for larger surface areas: one drop will cover more than one square inch of a flat surface. The medium grade is useful for most routine shop work and household repairs. Bonds, gaps, cracks, and any other type of repair made will generally outlast the object itself. I STRONGLY recommend buying (and keeping it near to hand) a bottle of approved solvent for clean-ups and freeing accidentally glued-together body parts. Acetone works, too, but it's rough on skin and it's extremely flammable. For best results and to achieve an instant, rock-solid, fully-cured bond, use a spray-on accelerator (dispensed from an aerosol can is best) with all the thickness grades of Hot Stuff CA glues. Amazon sells it. Be warned: Amazon and many of its third-party vendors will NOT ship the liquid-in-a-bottle form of accelerator to Hawaii and some other states!

While this glue didn't quite serve the purpose I ultimately wanted it to, it certainly was an improvement over what I had been using.I had been using Gorilla brand superglue to glue the brass tubing to the inside of pen blanks and while it worked it was a tedious chore to use.It was much too thin and it would run all over the place and get form layers of glue scab on my fingers. Not nice. I got the memo on using disposable gloves but it was still messy and it dried much too quick for my liking.I went a looking for a better solution and got my hands on a bottle of this stuff. Boy did my quality of life improve! It stays where you put it, has a less than instantaneous open time, more like 10 or so seconds, and when shoved into tight places it doesn't seem to spill out so much which I really do like. It also has much better gap filling properties.There are two reasons for me not giving it 5 stars.One, it doesn't have any special method to keep the tip from gluing shut whenever you use it. Currently I have it cut back to a point where it doesn't do this but I preferred the finer tip I had cut into it when it was new. The Gorilla CA glue bottle beats this one in that respect and while it may seem trivial I prefer not to have to fiddle with glue bottles when I could be getting work done.Second, and more importantly, it isn't quite strong enough for use on a pen blank in my opinion. Most of the time it isn't a problem but I'll always have that one blank that comes unstuck from its tubing, even having roughed that up with coarse abrasive, and I'll have to dismount my work and re-glue things to get them turning properly. I've been using a small drill press for boring holes that doesn't quite make it all the way to the bottom of a blank, so I have to re-drill from the other side introducing a little bit of slop that maybe make the glue less effective at what its doing. I think I'll try quick-set epoxy next. When I fix the situation with the drill press I'll probably come back and give this product another go and see if with accurately drilled holes it fairs better.Overall, I must say that the Hot Stuff Super T Medium CA Glue has more or less everything I was looking for in a CA glue and I'm satisfied with its performance. If I needed more CA glue I wouldn't hesitate to but this again.