Is there a way to un-crazy glue two parts

[Bruce Cohen]

Decided to be a smart a$$ and was too lazy to get the wood glue and crazy glue was closer to me and it was hot in the shop and I was tired, SO...

I used crazy glue to affix the handles to this jewelry box I'm almost finished with and one of the handles are in the wrong place,

The thought of remaking the lids (there are two and they are bookmatched spalted maple, so I'd have to re-saw another piece of stock, except this came from a really nifty piece, and I'm not in the mood to do that all over again.

I probably could cut the handle off with a flexable Japanese saw, and if I really can't get an answer that maybe there's a solvent (the handles have been on the lids for 3 days now, so I guess Acetone is out of the question.

Anybody, please tell me I don't have to go thru sawing off the handle!!

More stupid than usual,

Bruce

Bruce

[Alex Franke]

Acetone, I believe, but it looks liek you've already considered that...

[scmhogg]

I thought I had purchased a super glue solvent some years ago. But, the only mention of it is in UK websites. The product is called Super Glue Release.

Steve

[Uncle Cracker]

There are CA (cyanoacrylate) "debonders" available, but they work best getting fingers apart. They are not particularly effective in separating wood parts. Japanese saw, followed by careful massaging with a sharp hand plane might be your best hope.

[Tom Slick]

http://www.fastcap.com/products.aspx?id=230

These guys sell/market "debonder"

[just started]

Apply acetone with a small hypodermic needle into the joint.

[leehljp]

Use acetone to saturate the wood first, then use a small piece of acetone soaked cloth (folded) over the spot and wait. Check about every 10 minutes.

For me on pens, when I needed to use acetone to remove CA, It would slightly leach the color of the wood in some instances. So I would use Boiled Linseed Oil to bring the natural color back to the wood.

[cabinetman]

Here's a pretty easy way I heard on the radio, or internet, maybe on a forum, or could have been in some magazine or newspaper...I can't really remember. Anyway, you freeze it for 24hrs @ -3750 degrees F. Then you take it out of our atmosphere (preferably about 1000 miles above the Earth's surface) and release it. It's supposed to just release the glue.

Even if the above method doesn't work I'm sure you learned a valuable lesson.
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[ironhat]

Here's a pretty easy way I heard on the radio, or internet, maybe on a forum, or could have been in some magazine or newspaper...I can't really remember. Anyway, you freeze it for 24hrs @ -3750 degrees F. Then you take it out of our atmosphere (preferably about 1000 miles above the Earth's surface) and release it. It's supposed to just release the glue.

Even if the above method doesn't work I'm sure you learned a valuable lesson.
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So, you're saying to stay out all night without telling the wife where you've been. That should bring the temperature down and you just have to wait for the belt in the chops that'll put you out of this world. Well, maybe the wrong world, CM, but it wouldn't matter, then.

More to the point, you might try the glue producers website for an answer or maybe they have and e-address where you can post a query.

[Bruce Cohen]

Hey guys, Except Cab, many thanks for the needed tips. I'm going out to the shop and try them out, simplest first, I'll let you know which works, or post a photo of a crushed box lid.

Cab, I think you're getting waaay too into the contact cement, or some solvent. Even I couldn't come up with something that weird. Maybe you been talking to Lee to much.

Many thanks, you too Cab

Bruce

[Bruce Cohen]

Just came in from the shop. No way on the acetone, didn't do a thing.

But, "From those wonderful folks who brought you Pearl Harbor", the Japanese saw did an almost perfect job. Two swipes with a block plane and boy did I learn a lesson.

Anyway, thanks again for being so helpful, everyone screws up, it's just the help you get that counts.

Bruce

[Wood_workur]

So, you're saying to stay out all night without telling the wife where you've been. That should bring the temperature down and you just have to wait for the belt in the chops that'll put you out of this world. Well, maybe the wrong world, CM, but it wouldn't matter, then.

More to the point, you might try the glue producers website for an answer or maybe they have and e-address where you can post a query.

or wait until the eagles get back together.

oh wait, that already happened.

[JeffW]

But, "From those wonderful folks who brought you Pearl Harbor", the Japanese saw did an almost perfect job. Two swipes with a block plane and boy did I learn a lesson.

Bruce

You mean someone else actually read that book on advertising ??????????????

[Bruce Cohen]

Jeff,

Not only read read it, I lived it.

Been an advertising AD/CD for over 30 years, started in the business when Wells, Rich & Greene landed the Alka-Seltzer account and started using hand-held cameras to shoot the spots. That was totally unheard of then.

Those were the good old days. Now, all you see is "special effects" and no content, just flash and no substance, or as my late mother used to say "DRECK" which is Yiddish for the product of a bowel movement. I'd rather build furniture.

Bruce