The Story Behind Super Glue: Its Surprising Origins

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @markofdistinction6094
    @markofdistinction6094 4 месяца назад +51

    I worked as a chemist in the semiconductor industry. I discovered that superglue won't bond to many super clean surfaces that are hydrophobic. The superglue could sit on these surfaces for hours of even days without bonding. However, applying an amine to the surface to form a single mono layer, would cause instant bonding.

    • @GothGuy885
      @GothGuy885 3 месяца назад +18

      I think they should make the inside of the bottles and spouts of tubes of superglue out of hydrophobic treated materials then.
      I hate when I use just a little super glue and put the rest away [ in a cool dry place ] and the spout is still clogged rock solid.
      and I end up throwing it away. so much for less waste....

    • @francislutz8027
      @francislutz8027 3 месяца назад +2

      Just use baking soda.
      Next time you have a problem with the glue refusing to dry, if you apply too much and it won't dry if you need something to dry in place instantly and not have to wait holding it
      Sprinkle a pinch of baking soda onto the glue. It will instantly harden 100% bonding the objects together.

    • @SATERIYA-dp3wb
      @SATERIYA-dp3wb Месяц назад +2

      it was only a hit back in 1965 ~ 1975 and more precisely for pharmaceutical
      nowadays there is a duplicate or tri -plicate of the product's but different chemical chemistry component but the pioneer products still is popular in it's own territory

    • @newmonengineering
      @newmonengineering Месяц назад +2

      One thing that I have used is sand the part with sand paper and baking soda. Some of the baking soda typically becomes impregnated into the surface. And at that point acts as a catalyst to cure the glue. The problem is thin CA will typically bond way to fast on the surface. It's OK if you want to simply pour it into a crack between 2 parts but otherwise it may be too fast. The thicker one takes a bit longer so you can spread more in the surface b4 the catalyst starts. Other options are put the parts together with glue inbetween and pour water into the crack or if you want a stronger surface put baking powder on the outside and it will harden. But too smooth of a surface is bad for most adhesives, its always better to have more surface area and rougher surfaces.

    • @bcreason
      @bcreason Месяц назад

      @@GothGuy885
      I’ve been keeping super glue in the freezer. Seems to keep the spout from clogging.

  • @gregkocher5352
    @gregkocher5352 4 месяца назад +35

    I worked in a coal mine as a master electrician. I found many ways to use superglue. The fine dust there reacted vigorously with the glue. I could make a scuff resistant outer jacket patch for the SO type cables. Plastic components for electrical components could be patched and reliably allow machines to get back in operation. Otherwise it could be hours before replacement parts could be obtained.

    • @donalfinn4205
      @donalfinn4205 Месяц назад +2

      We don’t need to know what you worked at ffs.

    • @BillDavies-ej6ye
      @BillDavies-ej6ye 22 дня назад

      @@donalfinn4205 Interesting, though. Thanks, Greg.

  • @scottbrown8142
    @scottbrown8142 23 дня назад +5

    In 75 i took a tube of Super Glue to school. I glued all the chairs to the floor in the film room. Later i got caught trying to glue Mr Hall’s desk drawers closed. Mr Hall made me sit in the film room watching the janitor have to use a chisel to remove the chair tabs from the floor and they popped out of the legs when they tried pry the chairs up. Then i got suspended for 2 days

  • @majorlaff8682
    @majorlaff8682 29 дней назад +7

    Fascinating. I was glued to the screen watching this. Oops ...

  • @dimik3855
    @dimik3855 2 месяца назад +12

    Often it's better to use less, so apply SG to only one surface.
    I keep those little squeeze tubes in pill bottles with a couple of desiccant packs to limit residual moisture.
    SG is truly one of the handiest and most effective repair tools found today.
    If not already covered, I would like to see a video on heat-shrink tubing.

  • @nato7.62mm4
    @nato7.62mm4 4 месяца назад +20

    Was surprised that there was no mention of the added versatility of Super Glue when mixed with various other powdered compounds such as baking soda or Graphite or its reaction to various organic compounds such as cotton or its reaction to oil or petroleum based compounds when vaporized...
    L8R G8R :-)

    • @Steve-GM0HUU
      @Steve-GM0HUU Месяц назад +2

      I have also mixed it with acrylic paint to make coloured cement.

    • @nato7.62mm4
      @nato7.62mm4 Месяц назад

      @Steve-GM0HUU
      I tried to create colored cement using printer toner, I don't recommend it, it does not want to mix easily with the glue. It does work with JB Weld clear 5 minute epoxy tho was not aa vibrant in color as I had expected. L8R G8R. :-)

  • @charlesgantz5865
    @charlesgantz5865 3 месяца назад +7

    Sounds sort of like how post-it note pads were invented. As I've heard it, a chemist was experimenting with various glue, and found one that just didn't glue very well. At some point he started putting some on note pads and started sticking them everywhere.

  • @InssiAjaton
    @InssiAjaton Месяц назад +12

    I saw sometime in the second half of 1960’s in some American technical magazine an ad by Eastman about this fancy instant glue. A little search produced info of a local distributor and I got my employer to buy me one small plastic dispenser bottle. In those days we needed to wind some tiny transformer coils and had difficulties securing the ends of the first coil while the second was being wound. So I tried a drop of the Eastman super glue and it worked indeed instantly. After making a few transformers in house, we soon needed bigger production lots and farmed the manufacturing to an outside vendor. They had the same problem that we had started with, and we sent my small dispenser bottle to them. While in the middle of their production, they wanted more of the glue. I suspected they had used more than just a small drop on every application, but they claimed they had followed the one drop instruction. Of course, we did not know how big a drop… Anyway, the original Eastman product was expensive, but the ideal solution to the problem, so either we, or our winding vendor then bought another bottle and it remained in our specification beyond the time when I got transferred to another division of the concern. Now, every time I go to a hardware store and pass the adhesives shelf, I stop to think whether my super glue at home is still fresh enough. Now it is a tiny fraction of the old Eastman 910 cost, so no big a deal to buy some more.

  • @stevehill4615
    @stevehill4615 Месяц назад +3

    Great stuff superglue, I use it anytime I've moulded thermoset plastics mixed with baking soda, perfect for iniitial bonding of broken/cracked mouldings such as tractor mudgaurds (I use high fluidity as it'll run into the crack and the soda will set it off instantly), then follow up with glass fibre to strengthen the area.

  • @andys109
    @andys109 4 месяца назад +10

    add regular baking soda to superglue and it will be even more strong

    • @frequentlycynical642
      @frequentlycynical642 Месяц назад

      I don't think it's stronger. You just added filler which might well prove beneficial for because it also a much deeper mass, not just at the junction.

  • @GothGuy885
    @GothGuy885 3 месяца назад +11

    Fred Joyner- known for gluing things together😁

    • @stevenosimpson
      @stevenosimpson 22 дня назад

      I can't believe that was skipped over.

  • @petershoobridge6476
    @petershoobridge6476 Месяц назад +1

    A great story I have been searching for, although I beg to differ on cyano and it’s exposure to heat. I use it extensively in all manner of of repairs, so I do a lot my own research and I have found that there are other drawbacks because of that. If cyano is used in thread lock scenario or similar, heat is the one thing that easily defeats it, but as you say one of man's most useful tools ever discovered. 👍🇦🇺

  • @peterszutu555
    @peterszutu555 21 день назад +4

    I’m a diy woodworker and use super glue on many projects. Once I injured myself with a router. The wound was a deep flap on my index finger tip. It was a bloody mess. So I used super glue on the edges and stuck the flap down. It stoped the bleeding and looked remarkably like an uninjured finger tip. A small bandage was all that was needed until it healed completely. Now I have a tube in my first aid kit.

  • @jude175
    @jude175 3 месяца назад +5

    The glue can't have just appeared as you said twice, unless there really is a glue fairy who waved her magic glue wand and Presto! Cyanasomething appeared.

  • @othgmark1
    @othgmark1 25 дней назад

    I first became aware of this product when it was still Eastman 910. My father worked at McDonnell aircraft building f4 Phantoms and they used it frequently in the 1960's. At that time it was very expensive. He always mentioned that when he paid a dollar or so for a tube at a hardware store in his later years. I asked him if the much more expensive Eastman prodict was better, he did not seem to think so compared to Superglue brand.

  • @mikejones-go8vz
    @mikejones-go8vz 17 дней назад +1

    Didn’t mention how the screw cap can still come off 😳

  • @nvturner
    @nvturner 2 месяца назад +2

    This is put together well but could cease, ie remove duplications of content, at 08:54

    • @bravante5927
      @bravante5927 Месяц назад

      This is what happens when IA writes the script, it duplicates the content by duplicating the content and/or repeating the content. Also, some of the images are not correct.

  • @davidholman2536
    @davidholman2536 Месяц назад

    I'm using SG with an activator spray. It really does set straight away then. What's in the spray? It works really well then on ceramics.

    • @joeylawn36111
      @joeylawn36111 29 дней назад +1

      Acetone and/or various organic Amine compounds.

    • @jonnyhifi
      @jonnyhifi 27 дней назад

      @@joeylawn36111I believe the acetone is purely a carrier - intended to flash off rapidly leaving the catalyst. The catalyst which is left remains active almost indefinitely . A colleague was convinced it only lasted for 10 seconds or so - so having googled to see what the compound was I’d guessed the catalyst would be very stable - and all that mattered - and we set up a test of leaving some coupons sprayed with activator-and even 3 days later worked indisitinguishably from one’s we’d sprayed a mere 20 seconds before to my colleagues utter astonishment . As I said to him “that’s the power of understanding some basic chemistry !”

  • @paulclarke245
    @paulclarke245 Месяц назад +1

    superglue and baking soda is great for repairing circuit boards, s-glue and graphite (pencil lead) works great as a filler

  • @david.thomas.108
    @david.thomas.108 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you for using a real human voice and not AI! So much better. Great educational video 👍

    • @johnelove4714
      @johnelove4714 Месяц назад +1

      Mate, this is one of the most common AI voices !! Can't even pronounce cyanoacrylate !!

    • @hunkydorian
      @hunkydorian 23 дня назад

      I think that it's AI. It has that annoying thing that AI voices have.

    • @david.thomas.108
      @david.thomas.108 23 дня назад

      @@hunkydorianmaybe it is. I’m not sure anymore!

  • @ralphwortley1206
    @ralphwortley1206 Месяц назад

    An excellent household aid. But I have consistently found that once you had opened it, you could not close it and use it again. I always kept it in the refrigerator even before using it, and putting a pin in the nozzle after using it, but although the glue inside was still not hard, it would not come through the nozzle. Any tips?

    • @ooyginyardel4835
      @ooyginyardel4835 16 дней назад

      Harbor Freight sells very small ‘single use’ tubes in (I think) eight packs. Makes amazing sense.

  • @davidbilbrough3726
    @davidbilbrough3726 25 дней назад

    My dads company made microvave parts for the Blue Streak missile years ago, and they used super glue then to bond aluminum. Damping one side then pressing together with a 'chicken rivet' like modern aircraft.

  • @workshop719
    @workshop719 Месяц назад +4

    Kudos to Dr. Harry Coover's tenacity. He may have failed the first time but stuck to it.

  • @freeserve1942
    @freeserve1942 Месяц назад +3

    I read a book on its invention, I found it ‘ hard to put down’ !

    • @ryanroux5429
      @ryanroux5429 Месяц назад

      😂😂😂

    • @Laz_Arus
      @Laz_Arus 29 дней назад

      If memory serves, that book was in the mystery genre. The main character's ending was sticky!

  • @MichaelNiece
    @MichaelNiece 25 дней назад +1

    They’re just hand waiving away the cyanoacrylate. “He stumbled across cyanoacrylate and it stuck to everything.” So he didn’t make it? Or he did? This makes it sound like it was already there. It doesn’t say anything about him accidentally making it. Wording is everything, people.

  • @frequentlycynical642
    @frequentlycynical642 Месяц назад

    Silicone rubber is also activated by moisture.
    Cyanoacrylate is also used in automotive clear coat finishes. It is highly toxic during spraying, so breathing must be done with carbon filters in the mask.

    • @joeylawn36111
      @joeylawn36111 29 дней назад

      Yeah, you don't want it in your moisture-filled lungs or anywhere internal. But the medical-grade cyanoacrylate is safe for skin.

  • @eddy2561
    @eddy2561 24 дня назад +2

    I've never been able to get super glue to work as described in the video......S I G H!!

  • @deanbradley7572
    @deanbradley7572 Месяц назад

    Great video. However, one small thing is the last video clip the user is brushing on a product. This is not super glue, more likely MEK or Acatone branded as a hobby glue. Well done all the same, keep them coming .

  • @c3N3q
    @c3N3q 4 месяца назад +7

    I thought this 4:21 was why superglue was originally developed during the WW2.
    For anyone reading this comment 👉 it does work perfectly and could potentially save your life. You can stitch yourself with SG, especially if you have a bit of baking soda available, which instantly turns to plastic when you Sprinkle it over your makeshift stitches 👍
    SG is one of my favourite tools. I'm surprised you guys didn't mention anything about what you can do when you add other stuff to it, like baking soda.

    • @Colorado_Native
      @Colorado_Native 4 месяца назад +3

      True, I carry some in my first aid kit in my Jeep. A Navy friend told me about it and got me some.

    • @francislutz8027
      @francislutz8027 3 месяца назад

      Facts. I've glued myself up too many times. But avoided stitches at least a half dozen times, and great for gluing split fingertips in the winter. Cut callous back to stop splitting, glue and dip into baking soda. Just be careful, it's horrible smacking a finger or catching the glue on a zipper and ripping it off making the split even deeper

    • @RPaton
      @RPaton Месяц назад

      Medical grade cyanoacrylate adhesives can be used in some situations. Super glue will probably not be sterile, and will possible inhibit healing and may leave scaring.

    • @c3N3q
      @c3N3q Месяц назад

      @RPaton even if your suppositions were true, if I had to choose between few scars and bleeding out I wouldn't really hesitate. But feel free to stitch yourself like John Rambo if you have an accident in the middle of the woods, or wait for someone to come by ..

    • @RPaton
      @RPaton Месяц назад

      @@c3N3q perhaps a FFD First Field Dressing would be more useful.

  • @tracedann3805
    @tracedann3805 27 дней назад +3

    No mention of super glue’s most amazing property- it’s ability, despite me wearing rubber gloves and maybe even a full bioprotection suit, to still get on my fingers and give me endless hours of fun trying to pick the stuff off.

    • @mingram008
      @mingram008 26 дней назад +1

      Every time brother, every time✔️

  • @W4BIN
    @W4BIN 4 месяца назад +5

    UV hardening acrylic plastic, not a true glue. Ron W4BIN

  • @davidtydeman1434
    @davidtydeman1434 Месяц назад +1

    Why doesn’t superglue stick to the cap?

    • @Kikerikiki
      @Kikerikiki Месяц назад +1

      Never thought about it

    • @I.S.R.M
      @I.S.R.M 29 дней назад

      It dose if gets sloppy and touches the cap other than that the nozzle is smaller than the cap and they aren't touching, stored upright means no spilage and that is the answer to your question

  • @johnhearn7578
    @johnhearn7578 Месяц назад +1

    The glue you show at 9.00 minutes gluing a model part together is not a superglue.

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 Месяц назад

      Actually some people do use cyanoacrylate for plastic models because it doesn’t melt polystyrene… (it’s particularly useful when using resin additions to injection molded models).

  • @Chrissers2010
    @Chrissers2010 28 дней назад

    Ahhhh the story behind cyanoacrylate!

  • @ooyginyardel4835
    @ooyginyardel4835 16 дней назад

    I don’t sports bet. The commercials are killing me.

  • @3henry214
    @3henry214 Месяц назад +2

    Many things originated from WW2 accidents or mistakes. Slinky... was created from a project trying to develop better dampening spring for ships instruments, it was a failure as dampening spring, but a raging success as a kids toy. The same goes for another popular kids toy, Silly Putty. A failed result of WW2 efforts to create synthetic rubber when access to real rubber, was cut off by the Japanese when they took the pacific islands that supplied it. Microwave ovens, the magnetron tube in them that produces microwaves, was a result of engineers at Raytheon trying to develop a better magnetron tube used in radar... Hence the "radarange" name used to market them in the beginning. I'm going to plug a book that hopefully won't get this comment deleted; "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things" written by Charles Panati, an absolute gem to read, it's where I got the above tidbits.

  • @garbo8962
    @garbo8962 2 месяца назад +6

    Best super glue prank was when one of our frustrated mechanics super glued the little sharp screws used to assemble metal sheetrock studs to a bosses toilet seat.

    • @jamesa6693
      @jamesa6693 Месяц назад

      A bit vindictive to be called just a prank. 😂

  • @I.S.R.M
    @I.S.R.M 29 дней назад

    Good for fixing cuts on hands and fingers. Lairs over the top... brand new back in action

  • @biffrude4981
    @biffrude4981 11 дней назад

    Cigarette ashes and super glue makes it set up very quicker😊

  • @wobby1516
    @wobby1516 Месяц назад

    Wasn’t this also the case with fibre optics, I can remember the lamps that use fibre optic hairs! Also there was a program in the U.K. called tomorrows world were they demonstrated fibre optic as a novel but useless invention, little did the know

  • @TheStobb50
    @TheStobb50 29 дней назад

    Super glue makes a good varnish. And super glue gel is better for flexible surfaces. One question I have is how come you can open the container it comes in, surly the super glue should make it impossible

    • @jonnyhifi
      @jonnyhifi 27 дней назад

      loctite have some proprietary technology to make their formulations more flexible ie less brittle, dis their chemists told me when I rang them for some technical help on a difficult job I had, and it goes into both their business / technically oriented products as well as retail. So it’s not that it’s a gel that matters - but the flexible once cured additive technology that you’ve benefited from.

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder8214 Месяц назад +1

    Why does super glue always stick to my fingers?
    It is best to let it dry and remove it with a nail file

    • @SATERIYA-dp3wb
      @SATERIYA-dp3wb Месяц назад

      I've seen people use supported superior glue for nail popish

    • @davidholman2536
      @davidholman2536 Месяц назад

      The adhesive sources the moisture it needs from our fingers or whatever unfortunate area of our skin that it contacts. 😮

  • @thecarl168
    @thecarl168 19 дней назад

    at 0mn50 sec what is shown is a hot melt glue gun ! not cyanoacrylate !

  • @Johnnybananass-_
    @Johnnybananass-_ Месяц назад

    The shot of what looks like two part epoxy seems out of place in this video .

  • @SamSung-u5k
    @SamSung-u5k 29 дней назад

    Got stabbed in the upper cheek. Took 2 tunes of super glue to close it up as it bled so much. Few weeks later this 4mm superglue pearl came out of the wound.

    • @I.S.R.M
      @I.S.R.M 29 дней назад

      Your not supposed to put it in the wound... over the skin as it's pressed back together then soon after put another lair, and 1 more for Good Luck. If you're really good the fumes n smoke won't get near ya!

    • @SamSung-u5k
      @SamSung-u5k 29 дней назад

      @I.S.R.M layer. Wtf did you think I was doing Mr wizard?

    • @I.S.R.M
      @I.S.R.M 28 дней назад

      @@SamSung-u5k I fken saw you restabbing yourself in the face with your 2 tunes of superglue trying to make a Pearl Necklace for your Husband! (yes Mrs wizard typed 2 Tunes above, just in case she edits it:)

  • @joeylawn36111
    @joeylawn36111 29 дней назад

    Works good - unless you want to glue polyethylene or polypropylene.

  • @robertkat
    @robertkat 2 месяца назад +2

    Used that 55 years ago.

  • @notyouraveragegoldenpotato
    @notyouraveragegoldenpotato Месяц назад

    UV cure resin glue is infinitely better

  • @paultrappett3487
    @paultrappett3487 Месяц назад +1

    Superglue is shite. The only thing it reliably sticks is fingers.

  • @JIm-w1b
    @JIm-w1b Месяц назад +1

    This kid I knew, had a smart aleck sister giving him sass, so he super glued her mouth shut. Funny in a way but they had to take her to the hospital where I guess the doctors had a release agent of some kind.

  • @TriPham-j3b
    @TriPham-j3b 21 день назад

    Styrofoam and gasoline or jet fuel make super glue

  • @kylecamp5149
    @kylecamp5149 Месяц назад +1

    @historyofsimplethings Why did you glaze over the fact that super glue was used to quickly stitch up wounds in WWII? Dr. Hoover didnt just completely disregard it until the 50's. It was made available to Medics on the battlefield.

  • @JamDuckJones
    @JamDuckJones Месяц назад +3

    Super Glue is Shit 👎👎👎

  • @Flea-Flicker
    @Flea-Flicker 21 день назад

    The guy that helped develop super glue was named JOYNER? That's extrordinary, it's like an ice cream man named Cohen.

  • @itsdavidhertznow5022
    @itsdavidhertznow5022 Месяц назад +2

    superglue will destroy electronic components even if its just near them. dont use on circuits.

  • @philipheels822
    @philipheels822 Месяц назад +2

    The superglue available today is useless and nothing like what it was back in the middle to late 1900's. I hardly ever use it today.

  • @BrianGeraghty77
    @BrianGeraghty77 Месяц назад

    Here is a suggestion: how does Alexa work?

    • @davidpowell6098
      @davidpowell6098 Месяц назад

      Ask her.

    • @BrianGeraghty77
      @BrianGeraghty77 Месяц назад

      @ they were looking for a topic to find out how something works so I suggested that idea

  • @dubsydubs5234
    @dubsydubs5234 Месяц назад

    Locktite superglue is rubbish, Bostic superglue is miles better.

  • @familydogg1234
    @familydogg1234 2 месяца назад +7

    Gorilla Glue much better. It EVENTUALLY dries in its container therefore cheaper in price. I've had a small bottle 4 years!!

    • @avflyguy
      @avflyguy Месяц назад +1

      I finally had to toss my small bottle of Gorilla Glue as it looked more like strands of hot glue, not a liquid anymore.

    • @RickB1792
      @RickB1792 Месяц назад +1

      They all dry up in the tubes.

    • @RickB1792
      @RickB1792 Месяц назад

      He should have brought a bottle with him and used it to seal up Obamas mouth.

    • @LairdDavidson
      @LairdDavidson Месяц назад

      Gorilla glue does dry out in the container even if properly sealed.