I used to sell Super Glue. I didn't know how to run a business and it didn't last long. Sandy's Superfly. Back in the mid-1980s
I did learn a lot. Most of the world's super glue comes from two places. Taiwan and Japan. The Taiwanese stuff tends to be cheaper and often has an off-white to slightly yellow color cast.
The Japanese stuff is clearer and higher quality. Nearly all good super glues come from the same one or two factories in Japan. They just end up with different labels on the bottles.
All super glue has a shelf life. Keeping it cold helps. Trouble is wives don't generally tolerate super glue in fridge. When you see a bargain sale on super glue, perhaps at an online model airplane or drone making store, that's old super glue nearing the end of its useful shelf life. So they blow it off for cheap.
Good Japanese super glue isn't cheap. Buy small bottles of the good stuff. Keep it cold if you can.
Teflon tubing can be inserted into the bottle, all the way down to the bottom, and then caulked in place with ferrule cement or a hot glue gun. Then you have a "wash bottle." You don't tip the bottle to dispense glue. You squeeze it. You can watch the glue as it rises up the tube and then release pressure at the last moment, so you can dispense tiny, accurate, pinpoint drops ezzackly where you need it. When you let go of the bottle the glue is sucked back down into the bottle. If it does clog up it is always (always) at the tip of the teflon tube. So you shave 1/64th of an inch off and you're good to go again.
20 to 24 guage teflon tubing works well for medium viscosity, like ZapAGap
28 guage works for the thinest, most watery stuff, like ZapCA
Teflon is a brand name. Generic tubing is often referred to as ptfe tubing.
I bought two 100' foot rolls 30 years ago. Back in the 1980s. If I live to 100 I still won't use it all.
You can buy smaller amounts
Posted: 29 Nov 2019, 17:27 • 
