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whats your worst accident with hobby glue.

I'll start off.
I was working in my kitchen, frantically glueing and assembling models. I had been sitting for quite a while and went to squirm around in my chair. Yet, whats this? One leg was dead to the world. I tried to move it again but nothing happened. The leg twitched but it was almost like my whole leg was asleep. I looked around and wriggled a bit. My leg would move but my foot remained stationary on the ground. Craning my neck i saw an open tube of superglue slightly crushed on the linoleum by the back of my heel. I could just make out a wet streak going under my foot. Panic. I looked around frantically, somewhere in my hobby corner of the kitchen was a tube of super glue debonder that came with one of my many purchases. Likely it was no where near my current position as most boxes of modeling stuff were perched just out of reach. I figured the longer I waited the worse my potential predicament would become so i grabbed my leg with both hands wrapped at the back of the knee and yanked.
It tore all the skin off the heel and instep of my foot, removing the callus down to fresh, shinny red, new tissue. I stepped back and bent down to examine the damage. My foot was honestly pretty much intact, however the patch of skin from my foot remained firmly affixed to the floor in my kitchen till i moved out.

Another time i opened a bottle of Testors glue i was holding in one hand with my teeth. Turns out i got a tiny bit on my lip which gave me a burn somewhat like a cold sore. Bummer but probably not as bad as super glue on my lip would have been.

Alright. Lets hear it. Your worst hobby glue moment.

ha! Thats hilarious! My worst accident involved my brand new $100 sunglasses and some crazy glue. After qa couple hours of assembling my DE i put my sunglasses on and left the house. The world was really hazy, i looked at my lenses and saw they were covered in hazy circles. Had them glasses for 2 days total before they hit the trash can.

I always knew there was a reason behind my logic of only using glue that wont cause me bodily harm, call me a coward but I have enough hazards in my jobb without my hobby attemptig to damage me

That is some serious glue...
My worst accident is nowhere close to that.
I once melted of the faces of a few units with my plastic-melting glue. But that is about it.

hmmm. The reason i posted this was because i had just glued my fingers to the base of a model that i was basing. THey came off pretty easily though.

Used a fresh bottle of the pink (extra thin) zap superglue to assemble some models. I didn't realise I had applied too much until the snail trail down my arm to my elbow started to go off.

(Superglue gives off heat as it cures - the faster it cures, the more it heats up, and this in turn accelerates the cure even more.)

I had a nice burn, 3mm wide down the side of my forearm for a few weeks. Yes, it got hot enough for a 1st degree burn (pink skin).

I normally use medium (green). I couldn't get any green at the time and got the pink, forgetting why I stopped using it. Needless to say, this event reminded me of the whys.

Can I go with scissors not glue?

I couldn't find my clippers so used scissors. I slipped trying to cut the sprue and cut the webbing between two of my fingers right in half. Wouldn't stop bleeding for 2 days and still have the scar today.

I once glued my hand to someone's arm. Didn't realise that the superglue was leaking until I had to squeeze past him....

Wow, that's pretty bad. I figured if you superglued flesh to something, you could just wriggle back and forth until it snaps off. I purposely super glued my fingers together once to prove to someone I could pull them apart because he believed they'd be stuck together for days until the skin came off, lol.

Amazingly, I've been collecting miniatures and model aircraft since I was 6 and I've never had a bad instance with any glues I've used. I have spilled it a couple of times on models, but nothing irreparable.

This one was completely my own fault and the perfect example of hindsight being 20/20. There is a little needle tip you can attach to the bottles of zap-a-gap and I always have to go through great lengths to stop it from getting clogged. So, after one modeling session I decided "hey...why not just blow into the dang thing to get all the glue out?"

Short version: I didn't clean off the big end of the needle tip properly first and I ended up with my mouth superglued closed except for this little nozzle. I walked around like a human mosquito for a few minutes before I worked up the courage to rip the dang thing off...dang that stung.

Not mine but a friend of mine.

His super glue bottle used to look very similar to his eye drop bottle. Especially without glasses on in the middle of the night.
He kept them both on his nightstand.

After his second trip to the hospital for gluing his eyes shut he stopped leaving the super glue on his nightstand.

I got a good one . So, I was painting up my Chaos Lord from the DV set. In case you haven't seen him, he's incredibly detailed. I keep putting my head lower and closer, trying to paint it well.... My cheek touches the countertop, for a few seconds, and the. I realized I superglued my cheek to the counter top! After a little bit of panic, I managed to wiggle it off. Hurt pretty bad though :p

My younger brother asked me to do some painting on the hard to reach places on his rhino because i have a really thin brush that i don't let him borrow, so i picked it up and noticed it was a little damp i just assumed it was some un-dried paint...

I ended up spending 15 minutes trying to get a plastic tank off my hand

I went to the washroom and I forgot I had super glue drying on my hands.

It hurt badly.

I had modeled an ork warbiker to look like the old 2nd edition models, a nice kitbash I ws quite proud of. But when the time came to glue the painted model to its base I found a blob of solidified glue was blocking the tube. I thought I could use a pin or a needle to clean the obstruction, but then "that" part of my brain decided it'd all be ok if I just squeezed harder.

I swear it as about to come out when the tube blew up spilling superglue over hands, table and, worst of all, the miniature and its base. In shock I dropped the superglue-soaked warbiker, that by damn chance fell into the tray full of sand I had used just before to texture the base. I tried to clean the mess before it solidified but it was too late, the rear quarters of the miniature were a hideous blob of glue and sand and paint and plastic. So I painted over what I could, put some high foilage on the base to cover the damage and called it a day. It's barely noticeable if you look at the mini from, say, two or three meters distance and don't pay too much attention.

I once had this metal glue that was simply crap. It almost didn't stick to metal at all, and just formed an irremovable thin layer on everything. Surprisingly enough I didn't ruin a single miniature with it.

However, every single time I used the damn stuff, it got on my fingers and created this layer that gave you the constant feeling of your skin being pulled. Also, it took about two days before it was well and truly gone.

I'm still surprised at my idiocy that it took me four times before I tossed the damn stuff into the trash can...

Worst I ever had was the first time I used superglue. I was gluing some metal models onto slotted bases. Me being the thorough individual I was, I was very liberal with the glue.

One Commissar was stuck to that stupid desk for 3 days. I just could not pry the little guy off no matter what I tried. Not even nail polish remover worked. Eventually I had to hit the edge of the base with a hammer to pop it loose.

That was a cringe-inducing story, OP!

I had a super glue bottle stuck to a table since it was on its side. After much wrenching and yanking, it came loose! Well, half of it did anyway. I ended up with super glue from my hands up to my elbows and I absent mindedly wiped my hands on my jeans. Thankfully the glue didn't burn through my jeans, but it ruined them anyway.

Man, I feel like I've gotten off lucky. No horror stories like that. Worst I did was having to repaint half the first metal miniature I ever did because a smidgeon of glue got on a fingertip which then touched the paint and ripped the paint job off. Hardly comparable to losing a heel or rupturing hand tendons between fingers!

Khorne would be proud. We're giving him blood simply by assembling his minis.

rigeld2 wrote:
Not mine but a friend of mine.

His super glue bottle used to look very similar to his eye drop bottle. Especially without glasses on in the middle of the night.
He kept them both on his nightstand.

After his second trip to the hospital for gluing his eyes shut he stopped leaving the super glue on his nightstand.

I wear glasses AND have to use eyedrops (my eyes dry out because the little glands in your eyelids that secrete crap to stop your tears drying out so quickly don't work) and I'm not stupid enough to keep my drops and superglue anywhere near each other. I've had an abraded cornea and that pain was enough to reinforce the idea of keeping them apart.

Had my glue in my front pants pocket, and it leaked. Never made that mistake again!

The worst glue related incidents I know of were pranks, that is to say intentional.

Worst I had was gluing a rhino together. I had sprayed zap kicker on the inside of the SA that you slide the bottom of the hull into. Trying to beat the clock I pasted the bottom contact points with glue (too much naturally) and did the business. I had glue on 3 of my fingers and my thumb so I decided to wipe it off on the couch. I had dozens of times before. ... and then I couldn't pull my hand off. I wrestled the bond for 15 minutes before I caled out to my room mate for assistance. After he finished his laughing fit, he brought me an exacto knife after failing to find any solvent remover. No nail polish remover as we were both straight males. Fortunately I only had two of the original 4 fingers still impossibly stuck, but that still meant I had to use the exacto knife on the tips of my ring and social fingers. There was a pretty gnarly amount of blood and I had to get two stitches on both fingers, but hey. It could have been all 4 fingers or god forbid the whole hand had I been more liberal with the glue. I learned three very important lessons:

1. The zap kicker in the glass bottle, has a CRAPPY top and it leaks like the Iraqi navy if hrld.in any way other than perfectly upright.

2. Karmas a biatch. Thats what I get for using the couch as.a napkin.

3. You have to be smarter than what you're working with. If you assemble models in a stupid fashion, prepare to have stupid problems.

Tl:dr solvent leaked all over my fingers, used too much glue, tried to wipe on couch, had to cut two fingers free.

Thank you all for your feedback. I don't feel nearly as much like a dolt. Misery loves company.

Cheers!

I used to play with a hot glue gun when i was younger. If you turned it on for a minute then unplugged it you could push a little out and have it hot enough to mold into whatever shape you wanted or make plastic finger covers. Well one day when i did this in class another student wanted to use it and plugged it back in when i wasnt looking. I put super molten hot glue onto my finger and to this day i don't have a finger print but a mass of random weird shapes.

Thats right, men and black lied to you, melting off your finger prints doesn't really work.

Just recently i was assembling some brand new Mk3 Iron Marines for my 30k Army, when my puppy jumped on top of me and glue got on the Torso of one of my Marines i was Building and melted the detail on it.

Tried pulling the top off a stuck bottle and got a bunch of glue on my tongue and front teeth. It was absolutely awful. The tongue part came off after an hour or so, and peeled off in a single layer. The teeth had to be scraped off by my dentist.

SubCommander wrote:
Just recently i was assembling some brand new Mk3 Iron Marines for my 30k Army, when my puppy jumped on top of me and glue got on the Torso of one of my Marines i was Building and melted the detail on it.

3 ing years?!

Almost glued my eyes shut (and possibly be blinded) after my superglue bottle exploded in my face.

I spent the next morning peeling glue off of my cheeks. It was surprisingly satisfying.

Since I mostly work with just plastic glue nothing has actually happened to me physically (aside from the one or two stabbings on accident with a hobby knife.... worst one was when it simply fell off the work table and landed blade first into my left leg. It bounced out but I was still bleeding badly.)

I think the "worst glue accident" would be when a tube of plastic glue had a leak or something (or wasn't capped properly) and was a fresh tube so it didn't take much for it to let out a lot of glue. I had put it on the shelf above where a bunch of sheets of plasticard were kept.

I had at least 4 sheets of plasticard glued together in the morning. Enough glue had leaked out that it took a lot to pry them apart. But otherwise nothing really bad has happened to me glue wise.

One team I left an uncapped bottle of Testors plastic glue on a shelf of my (thankfully unpainted) BAC miniatures. It ended up tipping over and.. well. Several of the sons of Guilliman knew what it was like to be hit by a Phosphex cannon. Again. Thankfully the damage was repairable with some spare bits.