[Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
A couple decades ago I was, for a brief time, a (not very good) hardware design engineer. In the lab, we used cyanoacrylate to glue parts to boards, and we used spray bottles of activator to harden the stuff. And so I learned that Krazy glue and related products, which normally only stick well

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread leaking pen
try searching cyanoacrylate accelerator On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: A couple decades ago I was, for a brief time, a (not very good) hardware design engineer.  In the lab, we used cyanoacrylate to glue parts to boards, and we used spray bottles

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
leaking pen wrote: try searching cyanoacrylate accelerator Sigh... OK, yes, I should have done that to start with. Actually I rather hoped there was some interesting tale behind the disappearance which someone here would know. So it appears the stuff is still available mail order, from some

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread leaking pen
hunh. I've seen it at craft stores, but not hardware. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: leaking pen wrote: try searching cyanoacrylate accelerator Sigh... OK, yes, I should have done that to start with.  Actually I rather hoped there was some

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 13, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: No explanation, and none of the replies mentioned any explanation; just a statement of what I've already observed. The partial disappearance could be due to the fact it can no longer be shipped by USPS air mail? Best regards,

RE: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread Rick Monteverde
train and plaster everybody's feet to the floor so they couldn't get off at their stops. Jeez. -Original Message- From: Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:sa...@pobox.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:47 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Rick Monteverde r...@highsurf.com mounted the barricade and roared out: Fellow time traveller: Went to the hardware chain store here the other day to get a bag of plaster. They didn't have any, and the clerk wasn't even

RE: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread Rick Monteverde
Plaster of paris. Sounds European and vaguely seditious, I guess. - R. -Original Message- From: leaking pen [mailto:itsat...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:16 AM To: r...@highsurf.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go? plaster of paris

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Rick Monteverde r...@highsurf.com mounted the barricade and roared out: Plaster of paris. Sounds European and vaguely seditious, I guess. - R. And Paris is where they have all those there revolutions -- and (GASP!) them