Tuesday’s Tip: Removing Superglue
December 4, 2007 · Print This Article
Have you ever gotten superglue all over your fingers and had to live with it for two weeks as it wore off? There is a simple way to take it off, but first let me tell you a story.
When my wife worked in the ER of a large county hospital in Dallas she saw a lot of very strange cases. One of the most interesting was the guy who came in with his eyes closed. Evidentially his wife had accused him of looking at other women and they got into a fight. Some how he decided that he could prove that he wasn’t looking at other women by super gluing his eyes closed. (I am not making this up.)
After the glue dried he began to think it wasn’t such a great idea and got some people to drive him to the emergency room. My wife said the doctors and nurses laughed at him for awhile and then gave him Vaseline to rub in his eyes.
Petroleum will break down super glue, so you can easily remove it with gasoline. However a less flammable and less dangerous solution is to use Vaseline to rub the hardened glue off your fingers.
huh.
there you go.
I get superglue on my hands all the time - I’m a product engineer, always making fiddly little prototypes.
I wonder if this works for Loctite too… it’s a bit different to your superglue…
DW-40 works wonders in removing superglue not only from skin, but from many other surfaces as well (although certainly not recommended to put in one’s eyes!).
Check out the following PDF for 2000 uses for WD-40: http://www.wd40.com/pdfs/WD-40_2000UsesList.pdf
I usually use medical spirit to get rid of super glue. If its on my fingers only I just get myself a “prune fingers” by placing my hand in a warm bowl of water for some time and the glue just peels off.
hmmm thanx!i just made a model and my fingers are stuck together 3 ways!