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Hi everbody, now this is a cautionary tale... so the other day when i was scratch building a battlewagon and I got some hot glue near an area that had some wet Zap-A-Gap (superglue) on it, and lets just say that heated, vaporized superglue in your eyes feels like pepper spray . So be carefull
Thanks for listening, Drew


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Hopefully you guys find this helpful.

so the object lesson is:

Don't do that again.

I've had a drop of superglue get me in the eye, but rapid blinking cleared the chunk out before it bonded anything.

Why use hot-glue on a plastic model anyway? There are better options.

Having used superglue and kicker to seal a cut, I can tell you that I do not want it anywhere near my eyes. It heats up enough to make you do the "burny dance".

chromedog wrote:I've had a drop of superglue get me in the eye, but rapid blinking cleared the chunk out before it bonded anything.

Ouch - your guardian angel did overtime on that one!

Fresh, thin grade CA if decent quality can ignite if squirted onto a cotton ball. It usually just steams, but can ignite on occasion

Ive seen sloppy modelers actually get burned from thin CA and zip kicker.

Remember guys- with CA glues LESS is more! You can add a lil more later, but its a bear to take too much off!

@Chromedog- you got lucky, about ten years ago, when the empire plastic cannons were new- when I was gluing the back hlaf of the carriage together, it popped together and shot a drop of glue in my eye. I ended up with a super lame plastic eye patch and some eye drops. A week of looking like a defective pirate sucked.