Hello, all.

I've got a nice Wearever Deluxe with the typical hardened sac. Unfortunately, a misguided would-be repairer (I decided against using the much more stronger words which came to my mind) has glued the section to the barrel with crazy-glue or some other cyanoacrilate-based adhesive.

The question is: can this CA adhesive be finally dislodged through repeated application of heat and soaking to the section/barrel joint, or am I SOL?.

Thanks.

Pablo

No, you need to dissolve it again, There is a solvent for CA based glues, and it was made especially for the purpose of removing splotches of this glue in unwanted places.

For a less agressive version, which would very likely not solve your problem (), you could try and use label glue solvent. However, the latter requires a lot of hard graft just for removing a spot of superglue, so I would think you really need the proper CA glue solvent.

HTH, warm regards, Wim

The standard solvent for superglue is acetone. Use with extreme caution on anything that looks like plastic. Other than that, there's not much hope.

The MSDS forms for CA glues say that the way to free skin glued together is to run warm water over the glued skin and apply gentle pressure to separate.

Your typical CA will eventually break down in the presence of moisture. But in your case, the trick would be go get the glue in the joint between the section and barrel. Not easy to do. If you try a long soak, let us know how it comes out.

If it is cyanoacrylate, then water will cause it to gradually let go, although it can take some time. It seems reasonable that heating may help "crack" it, but I don't know. If the barrel is celluloid, acetone will melt it.

-- Brian

You might be in trouble here.

The only real solvent for CA is acetone, which will dissolve most if not all plastics as well.

And by the way...acetone is still not a great solvent for CA.

It's a nasty bugger to get rid of.

If it's on my skin, which happens frequently, I don't even bother with solvents...I just either pick it off after it cures, or let it wear off.

If I were you, I would not bother with solvents.

Rip off the sac as clean as you can and then carve the rest off with a knive, file, riffler, whatever.

Or if you have a lathe and can securely chuck the section, this is what I would do to cut the adhesive off.

Whater solvent you might find to get rid of the CA will also get rid of you pen plastic.