I was patching a bug hole in a piece yesterday. I usually fill them with chips and dust and then put some Thin CA on. That often settles some of the dust and leaves a depression so I take some more and gently tap it on top. Apparently I used more CA than normal. It soaked up through the pile and stuck the pile to my finger. Then the CA set off and started burning my finger. So naturally I tried to get it off with the other hand and now I had burning CA on that finger as well. Pretty sure I said something like OH you sweet glue.
My girl friend losing one of her fake finger nails and I offered to glue it back on with thin CA. This was before I knew it got HOT when it kicked off. She flinched and got a tear in the eye.
OTOH I recently had surgery and they glued my hide back together. When I looked at the wound I had a huge purple splotch. I thought it was a bruise. After a few days it started to flake off. I think they used the purple pipe cleaner on me like you use on PVC pipe. My understanding is the medical stuff and the stuff the nail salons use does not get hot.
I've done exactly that, except with a piece of paper towel instead of sawdust. I had a small spray bottle with water handy. That time, I could actually reach the water.
I had some CA fun yesterday. I had several of 8 oz bottles of EZ Bond in a small cardboard box in the fridge and one had developed a leak and emptied into the box. The box caught the glue but all the bottles were embedded in a 1/2" of solidified glue. Dumb me took a screwdriver and mallet to try to crack the glue and remove the full bottles. A slip put the screwdriver through a full bottle and the glue poured out. Quick, I grabbed some empty bottles to save the glue with the help of an improvised funnel. Dumb me didn't hold things with enough control and the glue overfilled the funnel and started running out onto the concrete floor. In my haste to recover I knocked over the half filled bottle. Quick work with a paper towel and I was able to coat both hands with a thick layer of medium CA and a layer of well-glued paper towel. Fortunately, nothing got hot this time. I scraped and picked the paper and glue off my fingers for hours. I can finally play the piano again.
celulose is an accelerant for many types of ca. in an industrial setting we removed all paper towels, card board and cotton gloves from areas where we used ca. i have seen industrial ca spilled on a cardboard box smolder, cotton gloves burn, saw dust smolder, paper towels burn, adding water will make it rediculously hot. for disposal - to avoid dumpster fires - we started out neutralizing left over ca in 1lb bottles by filling the bottles with water, the plastic bottles got so hot they couldnt be picked up and there was less than 1/4" of ca in bottom of the bottles. moved to dumping into 5 gallon buckets of water and the water got noticeably warm.
If you put CA on wet punky wood, there will be smoke. DO NOT get up your nose. My advice in this case is soak the punky wood and get out of the shop.......fast.
