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 places -- but why'd it disappear from retail store shelves? 20 years ago it was in the glue section of every hardware store I shopped in. It certainly seems like something happened and I still don't know what. Quote from one page: "I finally ran out of Zip Kicker and the hobby shop I purchased it from originally is long gone. All the local hobby shops fail to carry it as well." No explanation, and none of the replies mentioned any explanation; just a statement of what I've already observed. And, I should add, a lot of alternatives for use as accelerators were mentioned, including baking soda and white glue, which I didn't know about. Useful info, maybe.
